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 • Nov. 25, 2021

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 • Jun. 21, 2016

In 1884 Mr. Gatschet found a Tonkawe at Fort Griffin, Texas, who claimed to have formerly lived among the Karankawa.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

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 Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley

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 Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley