In 1983 a dead body was discovered near Leander, TX. This body turned out to be an ancient ancestor of Native Americans, proving that people have lived in Texas for more than 10,000 years. 

Texas lies at the juncture of two cultural and geographic regions in North America, the Southwestern and the Plains areas, with desert mountains in the West. The area now covered by Texas was occupied by many major indigenous cultures, which had reached their developmental peak before the arrival of European explorers and depended on the environment and the vast network of rivers and streams for their way of life.

There are four regions of Texas geography, each region has different plants and animals. Native American groups lived on these lands, where they used the natural plants and animals where they lived for food sources and agriculture (farming). 

Native Americans in Texas

Native Americans lived all over the North American continent long before Europeans invented ships able to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Native American tribes were tied to their land, depending on where they lived it affected how they lived. In other words, much of their culture was related to their environment. Native Americans lived in each geographical regions of Texas: the Coastal Plains, the North Central Plains, the Great Plains, and the Mountains and Basins regions. View the following images, videos, and paragraphs to learn about each tribe: