# data[].attributes.body
It really helps. The Karankawa Indians lived along the Texas coastof the Gulf of Mexico. See the map . Their territory was from the west end of Galveston Island down the coast to where Corpus Christie is today.

# data[].attributes.body
The oysters and clams are not safe to eat in hot weather. So, to find food the Karankawa would break up into smaller groups or bands and go inland to hunt and gather. In the summer there are lots of berries and edible plants and plant roots.

# data[].attributes.body
The Karankawa Indians called the mainland and barrier islands around the Gulf of Mexico home. The Karankawa Indians lived along the coastal bend of Texas, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and what is modern day Corpus Christi and Galveston bays.

# data[].attributes.body
Men wore simple breach cloths and women wore grass skirts. Often the men simply went naked. The kids always went naked in warm weather. Because their environment has lots and lots and lots of insects that bite, they would smear animal fat and grease all over their bodies.

# data[].attributes.body
They are very kind people because when the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked on Galveston Island in 1528, the Karankawa treated him very well. They gave de Vaca and his companions food, shelter, and support. Cabeza de Vaca gives us the first recorded, and one of the better, accounts about the Karankawa. De Vaca lived with one of the Karankawa bands for several years and joined the band.

# data[].attributes.body
Karankawa Indian Language. Karankawa is an extinct language of the East Texas coast. Karankawa is generally considered a language isolate (a language unrelated to any other known language), though some linguists have tried to link it to theCoahuiltecan, Hokan, or even Carib language families.

# data[].attributes.body
(traditions) Wrestling was so popular among Karankawas that neighboring tribesreferred to them as the "Wrestlers." Warfare was a fact of life for theKarankawas, and evidence indicates that the tribe practiced a ceremonial cannibalism that involved eating the flesh of theirtraditional enemies.  (religion)The Karankawa and the Spanish settlers of Texas were frequently in conflict, but the Karankawa began spending time at the Spanish missions and converting to Catholicism once the conflict died down. No one recorded any substantial information about their traditional religion while the Karankawa still practiced it.

# data[].attributes.body
Karankawa

# data[].attributes.body
The Coahuiltecian cultures lived all over South Texas. They were found from San Antonio, over to Corpus Christi, south to Old Mexico. The Coahuiltecans were nomadic hunter gathers. This means they moved around all the time looking for food.

# data[].attributes.body
The post holocaust Coahuiltecans wore little clothing if any. Often they simply went naked. They did make sandals from the fibers of the lechuguilla plant. You would think they would have made pants of some sort to protect their legs with all the cactus and shrubs with thorns that are common in this area.

# data[].attributes.body
Coahuiltecan was a proposed language family in John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of Native American languages Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples ofsouthern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or relatedlanguages.

# data[].attributes.body
The Coahuiltecian cultures lived all over South Texas. They were found from San Antonio, over to Corpus Christi, south to Old Mexico. The Coahuiltecans were nomadic hunter gathers. This means they moved around all the time looking for food.

# data[].attributes.body
(tradition)The coahuiltecan's have this special song called the coahuiltecan song (pretty simple)(religion)Little is known about the religion of the Coahuiltecan. They came together in large numbers on occasion for all-night dances called mitotes. During these occasions, they ate peyote to achieve a trance-like state for the dancing.

# data[].attributes.body
Not much is known about their enimies.

# data[].attributes.body
The men hunted animals like deer, peccary, and rabbits with bows and arrows. ... They also hunted stuff like lizards, snakes, and insects for food, While hunting animals was a way of getting some food, they probably got most of their food from the women and children gathering plants, roots, and fruits.

# data[].attributes.body
Coahuiltecan

# data[].attributes.body
The practice of cannibalism likely had a religious, ritualistic basis. French Jesuit missionaries urged the Atakapa to end this practice.

# data[].attributes.body
Attakapas Parish was a former parish  in southern Louisiana and was one of twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans, newly defined by the United States federal government following the Louisiana Purchase. At its core was the Poste des Attakapas trading post, now St. Martinville.

# data[].attributes.body
They were single room, dome-shaped dwellings, with a great deal of variation in size, shape, and materials. The Acjachemen, an indigenous people of California, built cone-shaped huts made of willow branches covered with brush or mats made of tule leaves.

# data[].attributes.body
(traditions)They also have a native dance called the moon dance/festival

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Three Moons Festival for Attakapas tribe in Opelousas

# data[].attributes.body
The Attakapas are furthur away from the others so they dont really have any enimies.

# data[].attributes.body
Both men and women wore tattoos in the Atakapa tribe. Today, some Atakapapeople still wear moccasins, but they wear modern clothes like jeans instead of breechcloths... and they only wear roaches in their hair on special occasions like a dance.

# data[].attributes.body
Most of their diet was fish and seafood (including oysters, shrimp, and crabs.) Atakapa men also hunted big game like deer, buffalo, and alligators, and women gathered fruit, nuts, and wild honey. Here is a website with more information about Native Indian food.

# data[].attributes.body
Other spellings of these names include Attakapa, Attacapa, Attakapas, Atakapan, Yukhiti Ishak, and Icak. The three dialects of the Atakapa language have been known as Western Atakapa, Eastern Atakapa, and Akokisa.

# data[].attributes.body
Attakapas

# data[].attributes.body
Caddo is a Native Americanlanguage, the traditional language of the Caddo Nation. It is critically endangered, with no exclusively Caddo-speaking community and only 25 speakers as of 2009 who acquired the language as children outside school instruction.

# data[].attributes.body
The Caddos didn't live in tepees. There were two different types of Caddo houses. The eastern Caddosin Louisiana built tall beehive-shaped grass houseslike the one in this picture. The western Caddos, in Texas and Oklahoma, built earthen lodges with thatched roofs.

# data[].attributes.body
The Caddo people who lived near saline marshes made salt by boiling brine in large shallow pans. They traded their salt with the Natchez tribe. The CaddoNative Indians were known to be a friendly tribe, interested in trading with almost anyone. Theirenemies were the Sioux and the Osage tribes to the North.

# data[].attributes.body
The Caddo Indians were farming people. Caddo women harvested crops of corn, beans, pumpkins, and sunflowers. Caddo men hunted for deer, buffalo, and small game and went fishing in the rivers. Traditional Caddo foods included cornbread, soups, and stews.

# data[].attributes.body
The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern Native American tribes. Their ancestors historically inhabited much of what is now East Texas, Louisiana, and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.

# data[].attributes.body
The Caddo were farmers who lived in East Texas. There were two main groups of theCaddo in Texas. One major Caddo tribe was the Kadohadacho. The Kadohadacho lived in large villages along the Red river near the present day Oklahoma - Arkansas border.

# data[].attributes.body
Caddo Indian men wore breechcloths, sometimes with leather leggings to protect their legs. Caddo women wore wraparound skirts and poncho tops made of woven fiber and deerskin. Both genders wore earrings and moccasins. Caddo men did not usually wear shirts, but in cold weather, both men and women wore buffalo robes.

# data[].attributes.body
Caddo

# data[].attributes.body
Kiowa men wore breechcloths and leather leggings, and usually went shirtless. The Kiowas wore moccasins on their feet, and in cold weather, they wore long buffalo-hide robes. Later, Kiowa people adapted European costume such as cloth dresses and vests, which they decorated with fringes, ribbons, and fancy beading.

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache coalition fought common northern enemies, particularly the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Pawnee.

# data[].attributes.body
The Rio Grande branch of the Jumanos were Puebloan Indians and they lived in Puebloan style villages. The Pueblos along the Rio Grande north and south of modern El Paso from the Tompiro Pueblo down to La Junta and smaller villages along the Rio Concho in Old Mexico formed the core area of historicJumano culture.

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa lived in and around the Texas panhandle. This includes western Oklahomaand northeast New Mexico.

# data[].attributes.body
(Traditonal)A lot of the time they will perform there traditional dance known as the catzinas. (Religion)The jumanos traded hallucinogenics such as peyote, and they used the substances for spritural purposes

# data[].attributes.body
The jumano men would hunt for meat and buffalo using a bow and an arrow. Then the jomano woman would get nuts, beans, cactus fruits, and more.

# data[].attributes.body
They are called Puebloan because the houses and buildings they lived in are called Pueblos. A Pueblo is like a big apartment building. Most have two or more stories. The walls are usually made from large mud bricks called adobe bricks.

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa indians speak Tanoan which it their native language.

# data[].attributes.body
Jumano

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa indians got along better with the Comanche and plains Apache but often fought the Lakota, Chenyenne, and Pawnee tribes.

# data[].attributes.body
The woman wear long deer skin dresses painted with yellow and green tribal desighns. Meanwhile, Men wear brech clothes and leather leggings and are shirtless. Then during the winter men and woman moccasins on their feet and long buffalo hide robes.

# data[].attributes.body
In the 1720s they had moved south from Kansas to the Red River establishing a large village on the north side of the River in Petersburg, Oklahoma.

# data[].attributes.body
It is a tradition to the story of their ancesters and beyond the territory of the crow and the lakota in the northern plains also they have a traditional sundance that is belived to protect the tribe. Their religion is they belief that dreams are visions that game individuals supernatural powers in a war, hunting, or even healing

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa Native Amaricans lived in the tent like homws called tepees made from long wooden poles converted with animal skins, most likely buffalo hides.

# data[].attributes.body
The Kiowa Indians eat a little bit of buffalo every now and then but most of the timethey ate small animals like birds, rabbits, wild potatoes, fruits, and nuts.

# data[].attributes.body
Kiowa

# data[].attributes.body
Their life is like ours but they don't have any WiFi or internet or even electronics. But they do have toys like dolls made from wood and extra materials from their clothes and they also would play the hoop game which is a game played by the children of the tribe (and how to play is in the video)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Uploaded by Ann Muldowney on 2016-08-14.

# data[].attributes.body
Today the native Americans speak English but some of the elders still speak their native language that they used to speak. Like for example one of their words is ah and in their native language ah means hello.

# data[].attributes.body
The Texas native Americans religion is very complicated nobody really knows their religions only a phew people really know.

# data[].attributes.body
The Wichita's were very kind people and didn't really had any enemies.

# data[].attributes.body
The Wichita's built tall beehive shaped houses that has grass all around.

# data[].attributes.body
Men wore breech cloths, sometimes with leather leggings to protect their legs. Then mean while the woman wore wraparound skirts and poncho tops made of woven fiber and deerskin.

# data[].attributes.body
Well first of all the woman of the tribe would work together to harvest crops of corn, beans, squash, and even pumpkins. Meanwhile the men of the tribe hunted deer and buffalo. Then together they would look for fruits.

# data[].attributes.body
The Wichita
Here is a picture of some of their people.

# data[].attributes.body
3rd Period