The Coahuiltecan culture of South Texas was not really a single Native culture. What was thought of as the Coahuiltecan Indians was made up of many bands of Native Americans that shared a South Texas environment. These similar bands all roamed in South Texas and Northern Mexico foraging for food. They may have spoken the same or similar languages and had similar social structures. Their diet included roots from plants such as the sotol and lechuguilla, both members of the agave plant family. Also they ate prickly pear fruits, mesquite beans, rodents, lizards and sometimes deer, antelope and javelina. This collection of Indian groups had basically disappeared by the early 1800s, though there are many South Texas families that can trace their roots back to the Coahuiltecan culture.

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