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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."
The Indians were acting strange and Brotherton realized it was the Karankawa and attempted to get it back from the Indian. It was pulled away roughly and the Indian pointed it at Brotherton and pulled the trigger. The gun did not go off as it was a “double trigger” and the Indian could not figure it out.
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.
Between 1751 and 1828, the Kopano interacted with the Nuestra Señora del Rosario and Nuestra Señora del Refugio Missions. [1] Those that survived the mission era likely merged into other Karankawa groups, but by 1858 all Karankawa tribes had died off.
Several events focused on local Indigenous history and culture are planned in Corpus Christi through November.
Many of the three hundred sailors and passengers drowned while trying to reach shore. About thirty took a boat to seek help. Almost all the others died of thirst or starvation, or were killed by hostile local Karankawa Indians during their attempt to walk back to safety. The Spanish sent a salvage expedition, but recovered less than half of the ...
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.
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.