Word:

Karankawa

Number of occurrences: 35 Rank: 662,235 Frequency class: 22

Examples

  • 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. (www.caller.com, collected on 02/11/2016)
  • Of course we picture Native Americans on top of tamed mustangs, animals brought from civilized Spain, no less, but the coastal tribes, such as the Karankawa, were not the brilliant horsemen the Comanches became. (www.galvnews.com, collected on 03/11/2016)
  • The Spanish authorities sent out one expedition after another to destroy the colony, but disease and Karankawa Indians did the work for them. (www.tecumsehchieftain.com, collected on 07/11/2016)
  • A year later trouble erupted when a Karankawa living at the mission went into the hut of a soldier and asked for a piece of meat, his promised share of newly slaughtered beef. (www.caller.com, collected on 02/11/2016)
  • If interested in sacred lands look at the sands of Galveston were many skeletons of Karankawa Indians have been unearthed. (www.galvnews.com, collected on 03/11/2016)
  • The northern end is known for its protected national seashore, which is almost as wild and isolated as when the Karankawa made camp there. (www.texasmonthly.com, collected on 29/11/2016)
  • For many years, the heavily tattooed native Karankawa tribe fished there, greasing their bodies with alligator oil as an insect repellent. (www.tampabaymetro.com, collected on 07/11/2016)
  • Spanish soldiers captured some Karankawa women and imprisoned them in a small hut. (www.caller.com, collected on 02/11/2016)
  • I don’t know either, since the Karankawa didn’t thunder across the prairie on horses but paddled around Padre Island in dugout canoes. (www.superiorne.com, collected on 22/11/2016)
  • Also Cabeza de Vaca reported that the Karankawa Indians of Galveston would pick up the tar balls off the beach and chew on them like we chew on gum today. (www.fox21online.com, collected on 03/11/2016)

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