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The Karankawa Kadla people say that rather than disappear, their ancestors went into hiding. Rather than die, they survived. “We are very clearly still here,” said Beaumont.
The Karankawa Kadla community — more than 100 people who have connected through a Facebook group and a smaller council that leads community organization — is now fighting to protect a stretch ...
That's why present-day descendants call themselves, "Karankawa Kadla," which means mixed people. However, historians say they preserved aspects of their culture and passed them down to future ...
There were no Karankawa people at the busy intersection in the Galleria area, just protestors concerned for the environment and the trampled history of an indigenous tribe once believed to be extinct.
Matagorda Island is a traditional homeland of the Karankawa people, who once controlled a more than 300-mile stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast. (G.J. McCarthy / Staff Photographer) ...
Scholars identified the extinction point of the Karankawa people as occurring around the 1850s, but Seiter has traced families from that point to the present. ...
A group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area — where thousands of Karankawa artifacts were found — from an encroaching oil export facility.
A group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area — where thousands of artifacts were found — from an encroaching oil export facility. CORPUS CHRISTI — On the sandy shore of the ...
Some played ceremonial drums, and two others held a large painted canvas that read, “SAVE CORPUS CHRISTI BAY. ”Of the dozen people who prayed, sang and spoke in the circle that day, three ...