7th Grade Texas History Practice Test

In Texas history, some Native groups lived by moving around and gathering food rather than growing crops in permanent villages. The Coahuiltecan fit this pattern: they consisted of many small bands across southern Texas who hunted, gathered wild foods, and moved with the seasons. They didn’t build long-lasting farm settlements, so their way of life is clearly hunter-gatherer and nomadic. The other groups had different lifeways. The Caddo built settled villages and farmed crops in East Texas, which isn’t hunter-gatherer. The Karankawa along the Gulf Coast relied on fishing and gathering as their main subsistence, with mobility but not the same broad hunter-gatherer nomad pattern often associated with southern Texas. The Apache were nomadic as well but are associated with different regions and contexts than the classic southern Texas hunter-gatherer groups. So, the Coahuiltecan best match the description.