Directions:  Use resources including books and the links on the right side of this page to answer the following questions about the Karankawa Tribe.

1.  In which part of the coastal plain region did they live?

   coastal bends of Texas.

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2.  What types of landforms, climate and natural resources are located where they settled?

  Colorado River, Guadalupe River, Swamps,Creeks ,Bayous and wetlands.

3.  Were they gatherers, farmers or hunters?  What types of food did they eat?

 They were good hunters.Also they ate large turtles,aligators and fish.

4.  What type of shelter did they live in?  Did they use the natural resources around them to build their shelter?

 small huts. made of sapling tree trunks or  bent limbs and tied together. 

5.  What system of government did the Native Texan group have?  How did they govern themselves?

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The Karankawa tribe had leaders.