Tonkawa+Food

Tonkawa Food Do not use this color again. It is too hard to read. The Tonkawas were skillfull hunters and fishermen.Because they belived that they were desendants of wolves, the did not farm. They did gather many foods such as pecans, acorns, mesquite beans, herbs, roots, sunflower seeds, fruits and the fruit "tuna" from the prickly pear cactus. Although they did not farm the Tonkawas still ate lots of corn. They obtaind corn by trading with neer by tribes. The Tonkawas hunted buffalo, deer, and fish. Sometimes the Tonkawas would set meat out in the sun and make somthing like what we call beef jerky. Some people belived that the Tonkawas had canabalistic practices during cereimonies. The Tonkawas belived that by throwing chopped pieces of fruit into a flame they would have good health. The Tonkawas sometimes set traps to catch rattle snakes which they would later skin, and eat.