caddo & Karankawa native American tribes
Compare & contrast project
BY Gianni COHEN
Karankawa Native Americans
Geography: Lived along the ''coastal bend'' of Texas. Starts at the west end of Galveston Island and extends south west down to Corpus Christi. It has several large, shallow bays. Lived around these bays and along the lagoons, mostly in the winter. This is a semi tropical environment.
Houses: The houses were small huts made of long sapling tree trunks or limbs bent over and tied together. When they were moving around a lot, they would just lean some dead wood limbs together and throw a few mats or some grass or palm leaves on the limbs.
Social: They traded goods with other tribes like sea shells, buffalo and other goods from the caddo.
Gender Roles: the Karankawa woman often made cooking fires in there wigwams and cooked the meals with simple clay pots and dishes. Typical fare for the Karankawa included a wide variety of seafood like fish, turtles, and oysters, along with deer and many native fruits and nuts
Clothing: They wore grease on there bodies and tattoos and the men wore it all over there bodies or completely naked or a breech clout, and the woman wore moss or animal skin skirts but no shirts. Both sexes were heavily tattooed and rubbed dirt mixed with alligator or shark grease on their bodies to repel the mosquitoes that are in the coastal areas.
Food: There were many kinds of fish and oysters. Ducks and waterfowl. Alligator's and large turtles, deer, turkey and rabbits, black berries and plants and roots to eat.
Tools/Weapons: They love the long bow. The Karankawa men are 6 feet tall and the long bow is 3 feet tall and the arrows were 3 feet tall or more they are good in shallow water and better at shooting fish, alligators, and things than short ones. Tools were made from wood, bone, seashells. Had knives, arrows, spear points made from stone.
Containers: They made and used simple pottery. They were badly made and they didn't hold water very well so they used smeared tar on the inside of the containers to stop them from leaking.
Religion/Rituals: "Mitotes" were gatherings to celebrate when they would catch lots of fish or hunts and when they would prepare for war. They did these gatherings during the full moon. They would play music and dance. The also ate a tribe enemy's flesh, this is called cannibalism, they would eat the persons meat to take their strength and courage.
Link: http://www.ehow.com/about_4567837_karankawa-religion.html
#3 Map
Geography: Lived along the ''coastal bend'' of Texas. Starts at the west end of Galveston Island and extends south west down to Corpus Christi. It has several large, shallow bays. Lived around these bays and along the lagoons, mostly in the winter. This is a semi tropical environment.
Houses: The houses were small huts made of long sapling tree trunks or limbs bent over and tied together. When they were moving around a lot, they would just lean some dead wood limbs together and throw a few mats or some grass or palm leaves on the limbs.
Social: They traded goods with other tribes like sea shells, buffalo and other goods from the caddo.
Gender Roles: the Karankawa woman often made cooking fires in there wigwams and cooked the meals with simple clay pots and dishes. Typical fare for the Karankawa included a wide variety of seafood like fish, turtles, and oysters, along with deer and many native fruits and nuts
Clothing: They wore grease on there bodies and tattoos and the men wore it all over there bodies or completely naked or a breech clout, and the woman wore moss or animal skin skirts but no shirts. Both sexes were heavily tattooed and rubbed dirt mixed with alligator or shark grease on their bodies to repel the mosquitoes that are in the coastal areas.
Food: There were many kinds of fish and oysters. Ducks and waterfowl. Alligator's and large turtles, deer, turkey and rabbits, black berries and plants and roots to eat.
Tools/Weapons: They love the long bow. The Karankawa men are 6 feet tall and the long bow is 3 feet tall and the arrows were 3 feet tall or more they are good in shallow water and better at shooting fish, alligators, and things than short ones. Tools were made from wood, bone, seashells. Had knives, arrows, spear points made from stone.
Containers: They made and used simple pottery. They were badly made and they didn't hold water very well so they used smeared tar on the inside of the containers to stop them from leaking.
Religion/Rituals: "Mitotes" were gatherings to celebrate when they would catch lots of fish or hunts and when they would prepare for war. They did these gatherings during the full moon. They would play music and dance. The also ate a tribe enemy's flesh, this is called cannibalism, they would eat the persons meat to take their strength and courage.
Link: http://www.ehow.com/about_4567837_karankawa-religion.html
#3 Map
Caddo Native Americans
Geography: They live in the southern Plains, particularly Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana most Caddo people today live in Oklahoma. The Caddo Nation has its own government, laws, police, and other services.
Houses: Did not live in tepees. They lived in tall beehive shaped grass houses.
Social: They traded goods with the Karankawa like pottery for things they could not
Gender Roles: Caddo men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their
families. Caddo women were farmers and also did most of the child care and
cooking.
Food: the woman harvest crops of corn, beans, pumpkins, and, sunflowers. Caddo men hunted for deer, buffalo, and small game and went fishing in the rivers.
Tools/Weapons: They used bows and arrows. And fisherman caught fish and shellfish in basket traps. And they used tomahawks.
Containers: They made pottery.
Religion/Rituals: They had priests who would perform a ritual with the head and horns of deer after killing them. The people would not eat until the the deer until the priest took the first share of meat.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/tejas/fundamentals/life.html
They made temples on mounds of land. They celebrated seasonal rights called busks, the fall busk is the most important celebrating the crops and prepares for the winter. Fire represented an important part of their religious tradition, each house kept a fire going all of the time, at the main fire temple there was also a fire that burned all the time.
http://www.texasindians.com/caddo2.htm
#2 Map link: www.texasbeyondhistory.net
Geography: They live in the southern Plains, particularly Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana most Caddo people today live in Oklahoma. The Caddo Nation has its own government, laws, police, and other services.
Houses: Did not live in tepees. They lived in tall beehive shaped grass houses.
Social: They traded goods with the Karankawa like pottery for things they could not
Gender Roles: Caddo men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their
families. Caddo women were farmers and also did most of the child care and
cooking.
Food: the woman harvest crops of corn, beans, pumpkins, and, sunflowers. Caddo men hunted for deer, buffalo, and small game and went fishing in the rivers.
Tools/Weapons: They used bows and arrows. And fisherman caught fish and shellfish in basket traps. And they used tomahawks.
Containers: They made pottery.
Religion/Rituals: They had priests who would perform a ritual with the head and horns of deer after killing them. The people would not eat until the the deer until the priest took the first share of meat.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/tejas/fundamentals/life.html
They made temples on mounds of land. They celebrated seasonal rights called busks, the fall busk is the most important celebrating the crops and prepares for the winter. Fire represented an important part of their religious tradition, each house kept a fire going all of the time, at the main fire temple there was also a fire that burned all the time.
http://www.texasindians.com/caddo2.htm
#2 Map link: www.texasbeyondhistory.net
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Caddo Mohawk hairstyle.
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Caddo moccasin shoe
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Caddo tomahawk weapon for hunting.
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Caddo pottery
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To learn some Caddo animal words click the link below.
The word for buffalo is tanaha'
Link: www.native-languages.org/caddo_animals.htm
The word for buffalo is tanaha'
Link: www.native-languages.org/caddo_animals.htm