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What type of work did the Coahuiltecan do?
The Coahuiltecans of South Texas Living a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle of seasonal migrations, plant staples of the Coahuiltecan people included mesquite flour, pecan, agave, yucca, and prickly pear cactus, and meat sources included bison, deer, turkey.
Are the Coahuiltecans still alive?
The Coahuiltecans are gone now. But they did leave living descendants who still live in South Texas, but not as Indians. Once the Spanish came and started missions, many of the Coahuiltecan bands moved into the missions.
What are the Coahuiltecans known for?
The Coahuiltecan were various small, autonomous bands of Native Americans who inhabited the Rio Grande valley in what is now southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. The various Coahuiltecan groups were hunter-gatherers.
What is the Coahuiltecans religion?
Little is known about the religion of the Coahuiltecan. They came together in large numbers on occasion for all-night dances called mitotes. During these occasions, they ate peyote to achieve a trance-like state for the dancing.
What kind of people were the Coahuiltecans?
The Coahuiltecan region is in pink. You can also see who their neighbors were. It is important to make a distinction between the pre European contact Coahuiltecans and the post-contact Coahuiltecans. These are almost two entirely different peoples. Most of the modern descriptions of these Coahuiltecan bands describe post contact Coahuiltecans.
How did the Coahuiltecan Indians change their environment?
The Apache and Comanche came down from the north. The Lipan Apache were forced south into Coahuiltecan lands and competed for food, water, campgrounds and other resources with the Coahuiltecans. The third and last major change was to their physical environment. The climate changed where they lived.
Where did de Leon find the Coahuiltecan Indians?
A little later de Leon and later Varona found members of the Ocana and the Cacaxtle bands /tribes 250 miles north in Texas at a trade camp near La Grange on the Colorado and near present day Crystal City Texas.