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The Karankawa's autonym is Né-ume, meaning "the people". [1]The name Karakawa has numerous spellings in Spanish, French, and English. [1] [12]Swiss-American ethnologist Albert S. Gatschet wrote that the name Karakawa may have come from the Comecrudo terms klam or glám, meaning "dog", and kawa, meaning "to love, like, to be fond of."
Members of Karankawa Kadla and others who claimed Karankawa descent throughout the 1900s point to oral history. Sanchez, who was born in the Coastal Bend and attended the university, said her ...
The Karankawa relied on these bays for the fish and shellfish that provided their winter protein sources and thus were fiercely protective of that land. [4] Austin wrote upon scouting the land that extermination of the Karankawa would be necessary, [ 4 ] despite the fact that his first encounter with the tribe was friendly.
Along the southern coast around the Colorado River and Matagorda Bay and up toward Galveston Bay lived the Capoque tribe, a branch of the Karankawa people. [7] The northeast was inhabited by the Akokisa, or Han, tribe as part of the Atakapan people's homelands. [8] The Karankawa were migratory hunter-gatherers.
Texas historian Jennifer Logan wrote that Coahuiltecan culture represents "the culmination of more than 11,000 years of a way of life that had successfully adapted to the climate and resources of south Texas.” [13] The peoples shared the common traits of not farming, living in small autonomous bands, and having no political unity above the ...
The Karankawa then captured three men, and American named White who was traveling with two Mexicans in a canoe toward San Antonio. They let White free under the promise that White would bring down corn from the settlement and divide it with Karankawa. "The fight [with the Karankawa] was an entire surprise." Wrote John H. Moore.
The Karankawa killed a small group of the men who had camped on shore, including the captain of the Belle. [30] From January until March 1686, La Salle and most of his men searched overland for the Mississippi River, traveling towards the Rio Grande, possibly as far west as modern-day Langtry, Texas.
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