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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. A couple hundred ...
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."
Sacagawea (/ ˌ s æ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w iː ə / SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or / s ə ˌ k ɒ ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ ə / sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; [1] also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) [2] [3] [4] was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas arrested Luis Sanchez Lopez, a Mexican national and Latin Kings gang member, according to Border Patrol. Previously convicted of aggravated battery in ...
Sacagawea (1788–1812), Lemhi Shoshone guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (1805–1866) son of Sacagawea, explorer, guide, military scout; Cameahwait, chief in the early 19th century; Bear Hunter (d. 1863), war chief; Old Toby; Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1970), historian and professor at Yale; Mary Dann and Carrie Dann
The Border Patrol supervisor then asked to speak with a Texas National Guard supervisor and again relayed the information that three migrants had drowned earlier in the evening and two migrants ...
Still, over the years, there have been reforms to Border Patrol and CBP practices, largely the result of local community activism — including a 1992 class-action lawsuit in which El Paso high ...
Coahuiltecan was a proposed language family in John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of Native American languages. [1] Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples of southern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or related languages. [2]