PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISION OF INDIA
COASTAL PLAINS
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Question
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war with the Caddo
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European diseases and battles
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famine
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drought
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Detailed explanation-1: -During 1858, Mexican rancher Juan Nepomuceno Cortina led a group of Mexicans and Texan colonists against what was believed to be Karankawa’s last known refuge, killing many, and by 1891, the Karankawa ceased to exist as a functioning tribe.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the 1800s there were more than fifty distinct Native American tribes living within and roaming Texas territory, including the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Karankawa, Caddo, and Wichita.
Detailed explanation-3: -Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group.
Detailed explanation-4: -Captured by the Karankawa Natives, they lived in virtual bondage for nearly two years. Only after Cabeza de Vaca had won the respect of the Karankawa by becoming a skilled medicine man and diplomat did the small band win their freedom.