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?

 They lived in the coastal Bend.

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

     lage creeks,it is hot and humed in the summer and cool in winter and they lived by swamps.

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

 They were hunters and they ate alagaters and large turtles.

4.  What type of shelter did they live in?  Did they use the natural resources around them to build their shelter?   They used trees to build there wood framed houses.

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

They had a chief for every villiage.