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Texas Indians Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |