Details about the Native Americans Village and people:
by Katherine Thomas
1. Food:
1.1. The author of a Journey Through Texas speaks about the kinds of food they bring them like beans and squash. "
they
gave
us
great
quantities,
also
squashes
and
beans [...]" He also said "
All
along
the
rivers,
and
in
the
course
of
these
seventeen
days
we
received
plenty
of
cowhides,
and
did
not
eat
of
their
famous
fruit
(chacan)
but
our
food
consisted
(for
each
day)
of
a
handful
of
deer‐tallow,
which
for
that
purpose
we
always
sought
to
keep,
and
so
endured
these
seventeen
days,
at
the
end
of
which
we
crossed
the
river
and
marched
for
seventeen
days
more.
2. Cooking:
2.1. The Author of a Journey Through Texas talks about the strange way they cook and the process in which they preform it. "They have no pots. In order to cook their food they fill a middle‐sized gourd with water, and place into a fire such stones as easily become heated, and when they are hot to scorch they take them out with wooden tongs, thrusting them into the water of the gourd, until it boils. As soon as it boils they put into it what they want to cook, always taking out the stones as they cool off and throwing in hot ones to keep the water steadily boiling. This is their way of cooking."
3. Clothes:
3.1. The author of a Journey Through Texas described many of their outfits, even the clothes they had been given, made of deer skin. Still then many go without clothes except for old people and women. "
Those
people
go
completely
naked,
after
the
manner
of
the
first
we
met.
The
women
are
covered
with
deer‐skins,
also
some
men,
especially
the
old
ones,
who
are
of
no
use
any
more
in
war."
4. Acceptance:
4.1. The author of a Journey Through Texas described the acceptance to go pretty well, he talked about how they meet them and the Negro's gave them many things. "
For
that
reason
we
started,
and
after
going
a
league
and
a
half
met
the
negro
and
the
people
that
came
to
receive
us,
who
gave
us
beans
and
many
squashes
to
eat,
gourds
to
carry
water
in,
robes
of
cowhide,
and
other
things." Though, it makes me think that the Indians are a bit tired of them because the author says, "The
people
who
heard
of
our
approach
did
not,
as
before,
come
out
to
meet
us
on
the
way,
but
we
found
them
at
their
homes,
and
they
had
other
houses
ready
for
us.
They
were
all
seated
with
their
faces
turned
to
the
wall,
the
heads
bowed
and
the
hair
pulled
over
the
eyes."
5. Homes:
5.1. The author of a Journey Through Texas talks about how the Indians had homes and places to stay ready for them when they arrived."they
had
other
houses
ready
for
us.
"