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30 Cards in this Set
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Anthropologist
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Person who studies the origin, movement, and way of life of people
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Archaeologist
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Person who studies material remains, or artifacts, of past civilizations
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Atlatl
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Notched throwing stick
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Culture
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Way of life that includes people's language, customs, and beliefs
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Nomads
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People who do not settle in one place but hunt and forage
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In 1854, after years of nomadic life, the Alabamas and Coushattas
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Agreed to live on a reservation
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The horse was brought to America by the
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Spanish
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Most important Kiowa festivals un
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Annual sun dance
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Jumanos lived in
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Large adobe houses
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Most numerous and productive of all native texas groups
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Caddos
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Seldom strayed from the south texas plain
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Coahuiltecans
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Lived near forests in spring and summer, and moved to the sea in fall and winter
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Karankawas
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Moved from Kansas into lands along the trinity, Red, and Brazos Rivers
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Wichitas
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Lived on the coast between Galeston Bay and the Sabine River
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Atakapans
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Acted as middlemen between farming tribes and those who lived in cities
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Jumanos
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Farming was important to the development of Native American cultures because it allowed people to
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Have a dependable food source
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Lost many people in conflicts with other Native Americans and Europeans
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Tonkawas
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Spoke a language similar to Native Americans in Canada and Alaska
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Apaches
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Had councils of older men who made decisions
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Comanches
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Made alliances with the Comanches
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Kiowas
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The destruction of buffalo herds and the loss of their horses forced the comanches to
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Accept reservation life
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The tonkawas were forced to hunt deer, rabbits, and turtles because
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The apaches and Comanches would not let them hunt buffalo
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Hunter-forager people's lived during the
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Archaic age
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Which of the following was not one of four Native American cultures in Texas when Europeans arrived
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Central woodlands
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Scientists believed that people migrated into the Western Hemisphere as early as
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35,000 years ago
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Bering Strait
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The shallow body of water separating Alaska and Siberia is
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In the Coahuiltecans society shamans led religious cerimonies and
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Cared for the sick
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Among the caddos, one leader handled religious affairs while the other leader oversaw
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Matters of war and peace
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The most treasured possessions of the karankawas were their
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Dugout canoes
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Confederacy in
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A group or association of groups
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