Karankawa Foods:

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Karankawa Foods

• What did they eat?

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Diet

• The Karankawa people
• Did not farm
• Lived along the coast
• Were hunter- gatherers

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Fruits

• Gathered
• Nuts
• Berries
• Persimmons
• Prickly pear cactus
• and Cactus figs

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Meats

• Shell fish
• Turtles
• Oysters
• Fish
• Deer

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Other

• The Karankawa people drank a tea made with
  yaupon leaves and boiling water. The drink was
  said to be intoxicating.

• The Karankawa Indians were cannibals. They would
  eat an enemy to gain the strengths and bravery of
  that person.

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Works cited

• Pictures
• http//home.austin.rr.com/recce/map30.jpg
• http//www.celebratebig.com/texas-big-bend/prickly
  -pear-cactus-fruits-big-bend-national-park.jpg
• http//www.pecosrio.com/displays/cooking/DEW33.JPG
  
• http//www.livingwilderness.com/southwest/prickly-
  pear-cactus.jpg
• http//www.hbw2000.com/1884Fish/165.jpg
• http//www.saskschools.ca/gregory/animals/deer/de
  er1.jpg
• http//img.alibaba.com/photo/50932151/Frozen_Half_
  Shell_Oysters.jpg
• http//www.fishinglivebait.org/shellfish.jpg
• http//www.kateliosgroup.org/images/gallery/turtle
  /turtle20dead20head.jpg
• http//cache.virtualtourist.com/1/1412799-Informat
  ion_Sources-Houston.gif
• http//www.indigenouspeople.net/images/karankaw.jp
  g
• Information
• http//www.thisoldappliance.com/indians.html
• http//www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/karan
  kawa/karankawahist.htm
• http//www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles
  /KK/bmk5.html