1. Prehistoric Cultures
The first people in the Americas came over the Bering land bridge, a piece of land between Asia and Alaska nearly 15,000 – 30,000 years ago.
They were Hunter Gatherers – people who survive by searching for wild plants and animals

2. Bering Land Bridge

3. Prehistory Prehistory is the time before written records.
Prehistoric cultures did not leave written records but they did leave artifacts.
Artifacts are objects made by humans that show how they once lived.
Have you actually seen any of the artifacts below
that were made by the Native Americans?

4. Native American Cultures of Texas
The Southeastern Culture
The Gulf Culture
The Plains Culture
The Puebloan Culture

5. You will be using the map on page 101 in your textbook to label the Cultures and Tribes as we go through the PowerPoint together.

6. The Southeastern Culture
Indian Tribe
Caddo
grew corn / hunted
traded / made pottery
had rankings such as leaders and village elders
lived in grass huts
Were they nomadic or sedentary (sed·en·tar·y) ?
When the Caddoes met the first Spanish explorers they cried “Tay-yas Tay-yas”. What name originated from this saying? What does it mean?
They lived along what river?
What region did the Caddo live in?

7. 2. The Gulf Culture Indian Tribes
Karankawa: (believed to have practiced ceremonial cannibalism)
Coahuiltecan:
Atakapan:
were hunters and fishermen
Plants were part of their diet.
lived in grass huts
traveled by canoe
What region did they live in?
Were they nomadic or sedentary?

8. 3. Plains Culture Indian Tribes Apache Comanche Kiowa Tonkawa
Hunted and were dependent on the buffalo, and were fierce warriors
Lived in tipis (an entire camp could be packed up in 30 minuts)
Were introduced to horses by the Europeans
Were they nomadic or sedentary?
What region did they live in?

9. 4. Puebloan Culture Indian Tribes Jumanos Tiguas
Lived in homes made of adobe
called pueblos
hunters, farmers, traders
Tiguas made pottery
Were they nomadic or
sedentary?
What region did they live in?