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Travel with adventurers Chrissy and Jay Kleberg to Matagorda Island, the traditional homeland of the Karankawa people and World War II training grounds, threatened by rising seas.
Euro-American colonizers depict the Karankawa as a savage people in Texas, a myth unfortunately that persists to this day.
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 ...
She learns the names of people enslaved by her ancestors. She relates the history of white settlers’ genocidal violence against the Gulf Coast Karankawa people (who she was taught had simply ...
How bringing buffalo back can combat climate change, heal indigenous people in Texas Indigenous-run nonprofit in Waelder, Texas, uses buffalo to reform native grasslands ...
Upon learning that French children dwelled with the Karankawa people, De Leon secured their release and sent them home. Flash forward to 1995 and La Belle is discovered and recovered with ...
A tour of Indianola, Texas, a virtual ghost town on the Gulf Coast that once welcomed thousands of immigrants ...
The Karankawa inhabited the middle to upper Texas coast and were the first Indigenous people of Texas known to make contact with anyone from Europe or Africa — a Spanish party shipwrecked near ...
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 ...
As a fourth grader, SMU history graduate student Tim Seiter became fascinated by the Karankawas, a coastal Indian tribe unique to Texas.
As the nation celebrates Native American Heritage Month this November, new data shows Harris County is home to the most diverse Native American population in Texas.