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The Karankawa Beyond the Cannibalism Myth
The Karankawa of the Texas Gulf Coast have been reduced to a single lurid detail in most history books: cannibalism. But that stereotype erased a sophisticated maritime culture that thrived for thousands of years before European contact. In 2026, a living Karankawa community is fighting for federal recognition, and new archaeological and genetic evidence is rewriting everything we thought we knew. This episode explores who the Karankawa actually were — their seasonal round, their dugout canoes, their deep-water hunting, their language isolate — and how a Spanish shipwreck survivor's account…
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