USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Karankawa people were a nomadic Indigenous tribe that inhabited the Texas Gulf Coast from Galveston Bay to Corpus Christi Bay.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today, we know that most of these Native Americans belonged to one of two cultures: the Atakapa or the Karankawa. The Atakapas lived in the northern part of the coast. The Karankawas lived on the southern part of the coast. Both Atakapas and Karankawas hunted ducks and geese and ate turtles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Archaeologists have traced the Karankawas back at least 2, 000 years. The tribes were nomadic, ranging from Galveston Bay to Corpus Christi Bay and as far as 100 miles (160 km) inland. During much of the 18th century, the Karankawas were at war with the Spaniards in Texas.

Detailed explanation-5: -They are classified as gulf culture Indians, and they occupied arid homelands with areas extending into the swampy country of present-day Louisiana. They inhabited the Gulf Coast of Texas from Galveston Bay south-westward to Corpus Christi Bay.