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Corpus Christi has a new historical marker honoring the area's Indigenous people.

It replaces a 1976 marker describing the "Karankawa Indians" as having "a reputation for savagery" and cannibalism. It also stated falsely that the Karankawa no longer exist. 🗃️

www.caller.com/story/news/l...
Karankawa peoples receive new historical marker in Corpus Christi
The new historical marker is located at the Hans & Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge.
www.caller.com
July 25, 2026 at 8:54 PM
climatecasino.net
The sea surfaced temperature for the Gulf of Karankawa (formerly, Gulf of Mexico) continues to set new daily records:
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
texasmonthly.bsky.social
Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Read our cover story from 2024 about the Karankawa, the people who inhabited the coastal plains and barrier islands of Texas: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/karankawa-people-today/
The Karankawa Want You to Know They’re Not Extinct
Emerging from a long history of oppression, slanderous folklore, and rumors of their demise, the Gulf Coast people are finding a place for themselves in the twenty-first century.
www.texasmonthly.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
damienmarieathope.bsky.social
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBKf...
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
YouTube video by Damien Marie AtHope
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October 4, 2026 at 8:57 PM
climatecasino.net
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

Just in time for the start of hurricane season on June 1st, the Gulf of Karankawa* is now back to second warmest for the date, second only to 2024.

(*formerly Gulf of Mexico)
May 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
climatecasino.net
If you're looking for which bodies of water are currently experiencing sea surface temperature records, the place to cast your gaze is the Gulf of Mexico, which I have henceforth renamed the "Gulf of Karankawa."
February 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
climatecasino.net
The early season sea surface temperature for the Gulf of Karankawa* continues to impress at 2nd hottest on record for the day (2.4 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean).

*formerly the Gulf of Mexico.
May 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
climatecasino.net
In the spirit of it being "Show your Stripes" day, here are the daily warming stripes for the Gulf of Karankawa (Mexico), 1982 - present, with respect to the 1982-2011 baseline (the first 30 years of data).
June 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
climatecasino.net
As of Sept. 11, 2025, the Gulf of Karankawa is currently 2nd hottest on record for the day.

Also, 2025 just saw the third hottest yearly maximum a few days ago, behind 2023 and 2024.
September 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
climatecasino.net
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

As of June 11th, the sea surface temperature for the Gulf of Karankawa is now 3.0 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean. Yesterday's temperature of 29.21°C is second warmest to 2024's 29.68°C.

Hot times ahead! Stay tuned!
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
anarcho.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2021/10/04/k...
Karankawa people, once thought extinct, reclaim their culture on Texas coast
Historians long thought the Karankawa people had disappeared. But now a group of descendants is fighting to protect a coastal area — where thousands of Karankawa artifacts were found — from an encroac...
www.texastribune.org
March 19, 2026 at 1:30 AM
chron.com
"What better way to justify the attempted genocide of somebody than to paint them as scary?"
Karankawa mark major milestone on path back from 'extinction'
"What better way to justify the attempted genocide of somebody than to paint them as scary?"
bit.ly
May 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
climatecasino.net
As hurricane season approaches, the Gulf of Karankawa* is trending hotter, now 4th hottest for the day, and once again more than 1°C above the 1991-2020 mean.

The Climate Casino previously announced an Over/Under of 5 for the number of Category 5 hurricanes.

*formerly, the 'Gulf of Mexico'
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
climatecasino.net
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

The Gulf of Karankawa (Mexico) just set a new record for the hottest sea-surface temperature for the June 23rd since measurements began in 1982.

Will new record highs continue? Will a new all-time high be set later this year? The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.
June 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
drtomharris.bsky.social
Some serious heat building up. 31ºC on the Pacific side and widespread 28+ºC in the Gulf of Karankawa*

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May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
climatecasino.net
Speaking of f&%kery ... as of yesterday, the Gulf of Karankawa is just 0.02°C below the record high for the day, set just last year.

The lack of tropical development is allowing warm surface-waters to continue heating.

Will we see a new daily record tomorrow? Stay tuned!
June 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
damienmarieathope.bsky.social
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBKf...
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
YouTube video by Damien Marie AtHope
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
amuleto.bsky.social
Galveston Island, a fairly large island off the coast of Houston, is home to a unique population of coyotes. These coyotes mixed generations ago with the now endangered red wolf, and have up to 30% of their DNA from them. Locals have given the nickname "Ghost Wolves" to them
A photo of a "ghost wolf" coyote in Galveston, Texas. They're staring in the direction of the viewer, and look quite happy I think. Photo credit to Harry Blair A photo of a Galveston coyote at dusk, stalking, or trotting, the coastal plains. Photo credit to Tristan Spinski A screenshot from a Texas Highways magazine article about the descendants of the Karankawa, a much maligned Native civilization in Texas, are reclaiming their heritage publically. The article has a paragraph about the genetics of the Galveston coyotes, and their mixing with red wolves which has allowed red wolf features to survive despite attempts at extermination by Anglo-American colonists; which one of the Karankawa Kadla (mean 'mixed Karankawa') interviewed also relates to the survival of his own people. The whole article is wonderful and a great read, but as for the Galveston coyote info presented, here's what it says: "As Perez notes, at about the same time the Karankawa Kadla revival began, scientists began studying the DNA of coyotes living in Galveston's West End. For years, residents had been saying there was something different about those particular coyotes--their legs longer, their snouts pointier, their fur redder. Biologists conducted DNA tests and found the coyotes had as much as 30% of the DNA of the red wolf, a once-common species in the Southeast U.S. stretching to Texas that's nearly extinct. Scientists believe these hybrids can be bred back into animals like the red wolf of old. In other words, hybridization had saved them from the extinction humans had intended for them."
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
damienmarieathope.bsky.social
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBKf...
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
YouTube video by Damien Marie AtHope
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
vonahrensfeld.bsky.social
I dont belive in hurricanes from the gulf of Karankawa.
May 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
damienmarieathope.bsky.social
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBKf...
Native Americans in Texas: Apache, Atakapa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumanos, Karankawa, and Waco
YouTube video by Damien Marie AtHope
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2026 at 10:10 PM
ahcuah.bsky.social
The Karankawa Indians:

www.google.com/books/editio...
Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
www.google.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
collapseaphorisms.bsky.social
"The Gulf of Karankawa (Mexico) just set a new record for the hottest sea-surface temperature for the June 23rd since measurements began in 1982."

(Prof Eliot Jacobson)

#collapse
June 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
chron.com
"What better way to justify the attempted genocide of somebody than to paint them as scary?"
The Karankawa are not extinct in Texas, thank you very much
"What better way to justify the attempted genocide of somebody than to paint them as scary?"
bit.ly
May 18, 2026 at 1:30 PM