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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."
For hundreds of years, from the early days of European exploration of Texas until the early 1800s, Karankawa tribes dominated the Texas coast. But by the mid-1800s, Texas academics declared them ...
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.
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 five missions had about 1,200 Coahuiltecan and other Indians in residence during their most prosperous period from 1720 until 1772. [25] That the Indians were often dissatisfied with their life at the missions was shown by frequent "runaways" and desertions. [26]
Karankawa / k ə ˈ r æ ŋ k ə w ə / [1] is the extinct, unclassified language of the Texas coast, where the Karankawa people migrated between the mainland and the barrier islands. It was not closely related to other known languages in the area, many of which are also poorly attested, and may have been a language isolate .
In the 1770s some of the Mayeye moved to the coast and joined with the Coco people, a Karankawa tribe. [1] As late as 1805 Mayeye were reported at the mouth of the Guadalupe River; however, after this time they appear to have been absorbed into other Tonkawa groups, [1] merged with the coastal Karankawa groups or been Hispanacized in the missions.