PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISION OF INDIA
COASTAL PLAINS
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Question
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were among the first American Indians to meet Europeans.
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joined with the Coushatta people.
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were descendants of the Mound Builders.
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ate alligator meat.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Karankawas. Karankawas were the first people Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca met when he washed up on the Texas shore near Galveston Island in 1528. Their meeting was the first documented encounter between American Indians and Europeans in present day Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spanish period. The earliest recorded contact between Europeans and Texas Indians came in November 1528, when members of Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition landed near Galveston Island and encountered people who were probably Atakapas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Popular lore has long depicted the Karankawa Indians as primitive scavengers (perhaps even cannibals) who eked out a meager subsistence from fishing, hunting and gathering on the Texas coastal plains.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Karankawa Indians are an American Indian cultural group whose traditional homelands are located along Texas’s Gulf Coast from Galveston Bay southwestwardly to Corpus Christi Bay. The name Karankawa became the accepted designation for several groups of coastal people who shared a common language and culture.
Detailed explanation-5: -Captured by the Karankawa Natives, they lived in virtual bondage for nearly two years. Only after Cabeza de Vaca had won the respect of the Karankawa by becoming a skilled medicine man and diplomat did the small band win their freedom.