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.

GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A growing number of Karankawa descendants are working together to dispel the myth in Texas history books that their ancestors, a group of Native American clans ...

But in the past decade, and especially the last couple of years, the narrative surrounding the Karankawa has shifted dramatically—even if the prevailing image of the tribe remains hopelessly ...

There were no Karankawa people at the busy intersection in the Galleria area, just protestors concerned for the environment and the trampled history of an indigenous tribe once believed to be extinct.

Matagorda Island is a traditional homeland of the Karankawa people, who once controlled a more than 300-mile stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast.(G.J. McCarthy / Staff Photographer) The indigenous ...