Salado Indian Tribe Analysis

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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset
- Chief Crowfoot

We don't know what happened to the Salado Indian tribe, no one does except perhaps the

Salado Indian tribe themselves. Did they leave because of illness or did they get chased

out? What was the reason they disappeared why would they leave their home the place

they had roots, where their children grew up and they had crops.why leave that? Yes people

Think many different things but we don't have any theories that we can prove happened. Now

My entire easy might sound a little redundant but it is difficult to get new things to talk
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Not too many people have theories about what happened to the Salado tribe or...

At least don't put them online I got the privilege to talk with Roger, the national forest

service biologist and he had a few theories on the subject of then disappearing

And Roger thought that they might have moved because the resources like if they could

not get the water they required in order to survive or the nutrients in the soil might be

Disappearing so they would have trouble with the crops and they might have to move for

that reason and also they might have had problems with illnesses One of the health

problems facing the people at this time was tuberculosis.

Archaeologists have found a child who was buried at the Schoolhouse Mound who

appears to have had tuberculosis. The burial treatment suggests that this child belonged to

a ceremonially important family, or one of the wealthier families that inhabited Schoolhouse

Point Mound so that is what I could find and based on what I have read a lot of

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