Karankawa Campsite
Posted by: 
ggmorton
N 29° 11.217 W 094° 58.863
15R E 307373 N 3230322
A marker describing an old Indian burial ground.
Waymark Code: WM1KGJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2007
Views: 34
Marker Number: 7502
Marker Text:
In this area is one of several known Karankawa campsites or burial grounds. Now extinct, the nomadic Indians lived along the Texas coast, depending on the Gulf for survival. In 1528 they aided Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca, but resisted all intruders from the time of the French expedition of La Salle in 1685. The tribe later declined because of disease and warfare with pirates and Anglo-American settlers. Known for tall tribesmen and alleged practices of ceremonial cannibalism, they had virtually disappeared from Texas by the 1840s. This campsite was discovered in 1962.
(1966)
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