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Texas Indians Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| band | groups of people who move together |
| hides | animal skins |
| era | specific period of time |
| artifacts | tools, weapons, and other objects made by hand |
| confederacies | loose organization who worked together |
| matrilineal | type of family society that is traced through the mother's side |
| historians | people who study the past |
| Paleo-Indians | First Americans |
| nomads | people with no permanent home |
| anthropologist | scholar who study how people live and relate to each other |
| archaeologist | scholar who study objects that people in the past left behind |
| adobe | clay dried in the sun in the form of bricks |
| hunter-gatherers | hunt wild animals and gather plants for fodd |
| wigwams | portable huts in which 7-8 people could live |
| allies | friends who support one another |
| mitotes | feasting, dancing, all-night celebrations |
| crop rotation | grow different crops on the same land over a period of time |
| tepees | movable homes that were made of animal hides |