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Our hut

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Are they Still Around
By the 1840s only scattered remanants of the tribe exist

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Because of Thehot humid climate the Karankawa tribe would prefer to be naked. Rarely the women would wear grassy skirts and the men would wear breach cloths. To protect themselves from bug bites the tribe would smear mud, animal fat and grease. This tribe is also heavily tattooed.

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The tribe spoke Karankawa. Only 100 words of the language has been preserved. It is generally believed that Karankawa means "dog lovers."

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They based there lives on hunting and gathering and they made there movements based on the availability of food and resources.

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They traveled by canoe or hollowed out trees along the rivers.

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The obtained food by hunting, fishing, and gathering. They mainly ate fish, shellfish, and turtles, but they also ate some animals and plants.

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Small huts made of long sapling tree trunks or limbs bent and tied together. They would cover framework with grass mats, or animal skins.

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They captured a shipwrecked sailor named Francois Simars de Bellisle, he eventually escaped and told French authorities of the tribes information.

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Way of life.