Roy Bedichek called the Texas Coast Karankaway Country. He wrote a book by that name in which he related the story of a Karankawa warrior mesmerized by watching the evening sun go down.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Historians long thought the Karankawa people had disappeared. But now a ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad They’re part of a small but growing group of Indigenous people who call themselves Karankawa Kadla — “kadla” means culturally mixed ...

A group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area — where thousands of Karankawa artifacts were found — from an encroaching oil export facility.

CORPUS CHRISTI — On the sandy shore of the Gulf, a small group formed a circle and began to sing through the August heat. Some played ceremonial drums, and two others held a large painted canvas ...