Karankawa

American  

[kuh-rang-kuh-wah, -waw, -wuh] / kəˈræŋ kəˌwɑ, -ˌwɔ, -wə /

noun

plural

Karankawas,

plural

Karankawa

1. a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians who lived in southeastern Texas until the mid 19th century.

2. the language of the Karankawa.

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Example Sentences

Texas was home to hundreds of tribes, such as the Anadarko and Karankawa, when Spanish missionaries arrived in the 1700s in what is now San Antonio.

From Seattle Times

For Matsumoto and others, the connection has to do with Galveston’s legendary brushes with death and destruction, dating back to the Karankawa tribe - the island’s first inhabitants, known to have consumed humans after killing them - and climaxing with the 1900 hurricane that killed more than 6,000 people, leaving their spirits to wander, some believe.

From Washington Times

They ran low on drinking water, did not know what to forage, suffered from dysentery, and made quick enemies of the Karankawa people, who raided their camps and fought with settlers.

From The Guardian

He was unable to collect any information in regard to the Karankawa tribe, concerning which little is known except that they lived upon the Texan coast near Lavaca Bay.

From Project Gutenberg

In several places in the paper cited it is explicitly stated that the Karankawa spoke the Attakapa language; the Attakapa was a coast tribe living to the east of them.

From Project Gutenberg