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Tonkawa Tribe |
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The Tonkawa tribe lived in central Texas. The Tonkawa Indians settled near and along many rivers and streams but they did not practice any kind of agriculture. Instead the Tonkawa Indians received food from hunting and gathering animals and plants. When the Tonkawa Indians captured and killed the buffalo of the central plains they would eat the animal meat and use many other parts of the buffalo (such as bones and skin) for clothing and housing materials. Herbs, roots, seeds and nuts were constantly gathered by the Tonkawa tribe for food. The Tonkawa families lived and shared many of the Indian daily activities. The Tonkawa people believed in several different gods and also worshipped private spirits as well. They all believed deeply in spirits from the dead and affected the way they lived their life. Even the tattoos on their bodies mostly displayed symbols of dead spirits. The Tonkawa Indians also decorated their bodies with paint. The men of the Tonkawa tribe wore long breechcloths and moccasins, and the women wore animal skin skirts. Their dwelling where buffalo-hide tipis but the tipis did not look like the same tipis from the Indians in the Texas plains. Tonkawa tipis looked more like small round flat-topped huts covered with buffalo skin and brush.
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