As a resident of Corpus Christi, I really appreciate a foray into the indigenous peoples of this area. Thank you very much. One thing though, you have misidentified Copano Bay (which is the upper portion of Aransas Bay) as Nueces Bay which is actually part of Corpus Christi Bay. Copano Bay was formed by the inflow of the Aransas River while Nueces Bay, likewise, is the termination of the Nueces River.
when i first moved to our new neighborhood in san antonio which was all woods before they cleared it out, the ditches they dug revealed tons of arrowheads and various sea shells, large oystershells the size of footballs. its all covered by large grass now i just remember finding all that stuff when i was a kid. the lakes outside of san antonio you can find arrow heads as well. i can only imagine how many fish where in the texas surf back then, i bet they enjoyed catching those large bull redfish and black drum and tarpon!!
@@chasemdinestop voting Democrat. Constant property taxes rising and propositions to increases funding for infrastructure passed for nothing to be done about it. Mayor Turner made alot of his friends rich.
We had a large family farm in Corpus along the Oso Creek next to Cabiness Field and often found artifacts. I still have two large conch shells with a hole scratched into the backs of them. My father told me that as kids that they found a leather or string necklace made of sea shells while digging post holes. It disintegrated after they dug it up. I never found any arrow heads out there and I walked all over that farm almost daily for a decade.
God, thank you for your guidance through the living word of God. I pray that your people will humble themselves and begin praying God in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen 🙏
The shells with holes in them were definitely used as weights for fishing nets. My friend has five of them in his collection. I’m hesitant to say where, but you can see multiple oyster shell mounds from the highway.
Any evidence as to how the Texas coast native Americans were impacted by hurricanes? Might it be the seasonal migration inland away from the shores was due to the hurricane season? Seasonal hurricanes from late Spring to early Fall would make living on the coast during hurricane season dangerous and the building of large permanent structures near the shore economically impractical.
I live here, been through every hurricane since Ceilia, what’s not wiped out, gets picked up in case another MF’er blows. I’m sure they did the same… I mean we had Port A back up in a month, and it was Harvey’s bitch. I say we cause I was in it till it was finished…. There’s still folks missing from Ike…. Wipes out lots of things man… you’d trip when you’re on the tidal surge but no storm side… beach combing gets insanely… sad… folks lives floating up everywhere…
My uneducated guess would be that they, just like us until 1950, had no idea a storm was coming and no idea where it came from and where it went. The temps were much more moderate on the coast, which would be a big draw in every season. Knowing the coastal areas all up and down the Texas coast, I would say the odds of surviving almost any hurricane would be low if you were within 5 miles of the coast. The Karankawa had settlements about 10-20 miles in, along the tidal portion of the rivers. Close enough to partake, but far enough to get away.
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca is a great insight into the lives of these Texas coast natives. Most of them didn’t even choose to live on the coast, but were forced there due to stronger inland tribes who would kill them if they went into the interior of Texas. Most of the time they were starving, terrorized by mosquitos, and devastated by the elements. Texas coast life was a very difficult life.
I've lived on the Texas coast. Yes, it's harsh. But, it's abundant in resources, and they're easy to harvest. Yes, there are shellfish. But, fish are easy to harvest too. Some friends & I lined up in knee deep water off a grass bank off a sandy beach. Our women were waiting on shore. After a quieting down period, we charged at the grass. Sticks & pieces pvc pipe hitting the water beside us. We drove redfish, sand trout, speckled trout, mullet, shrimp, & bait fish onto the beach. I knew a fish & game warden. He was invited to observe. We had to throw the game fish, Red's & specks back. But, the sand trout & shrimp we could keep. (Most of the shrimp went back. Too small.) His thought was, "This is an ancient fishing technique. It should be allowed. You have to get dirty doing it. It should be allowed." We, including the warden & his wife, headed back home with the sand trout. The fish were cleaned by the men, including the warden, (never filet sand trout. They turn to mush.) Scale, gut, & remove the head to cook whole. The women cooked them. Pan fried, broiled, grilled & Mediterranean style. We all had fish. It is a paradise. Sure, there's the mosquitoes. But, the whole ecosystem is based on the mosquitoe. The bait fish & grass shrimp eat mosquitoe larvae. It goes up & down the food chain from there. We have ways to keep the damned muzzles off.
Yeah the Comanche I believe were the main tribe in Texas during the age of exploration. I find it hard to believe that they wouldnt be trading. Trading in the Americas seems to be extremely prolific when you go further back, the fighting doesnt seem to have started until later. As far as I know we have yet to find any bodies that show wounds from combat.
I’m from the Texas panhandle, so nowhere near the coast but I love learning about Native Americans. Especially those from my home state. I really hope that when I get to heaven, there is a Time Machine type thing where you can go back to any period and observe the people from that time. I’d love to just wonder the Texas panhandle like 500 years ago and just observe the humans that lived on the same ground I live on now.
My cousin and uncle worked as surveyors in Rio Grande City and throughout the Mission Valley and amassed a significant collection of projectile points and darts, some with the shaft still attached. This presentation answers a lot of questions I had as a kid. TY.
Yep I have seen massive burial points stolen from the dead by surveyors, I told them to put the gifts back causen it aint right to still from the dead of your own kind, lest you be curse! God, I laughed so hard as I watched their eyes whiten knowing they could not do either! Escape the curse or return that to which it belonged.
Did you come across the Cayo people in your research? My dad is from the Corpus Christi area and grew up near the Cayo del Oso which was seemingly named after the prehistoric native people from that area. From what I’ve found on them, there were excavations done but they decided it was just a burial site, but that was back in the 60s I think. So I didn’t know if there may be some more modern research about them. Also thank you for highlighting these native peoples in our area. I am from the Texas Coast too so I am very familiar with the Karankawa and Aranama tribes in my hometown. Not many people talk about them when talking about Native American tribes especially here in Texas.
Man, 5 minute walk from my house on Padre island there’s burial mounds, bones, artifacts, etc. literally laying around if you know where to look. The secret is, don’t tell anyone where to look. Let it lay. Mad respect to ancestral beach bums….. throw down some oysters…
Bruh, I live out across nueces bay at white point…I know of a couple old sites where they’d collect and shuck oysters….and your right…let em lay Those homies were the original salt life crew lol
Yes! Found the same down along Port Lavaca Indianola area. Shell middens and such. Pretty sure many sites are about a 100 yards or so off coastline,forever submerged
This old man told me he finds artifacts from time to time out on the island. I have never been lucky enough to find anything. He also said there’s Spanish gold out on PINS that he won’t tell me about either…
It was horrible. Cabeza de vaca noted in his narrative that in order to sleep at night, the natives had to sleep next to fires that produced a lot of smoke to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn’t breathe or see cause the smoke but at least it kept the bugs away. That’s just one way they survived the onslaught of mosquitoes.
The natives in the South utilized those methods to ward off mosquitos-- Yes they smeared animal fats on them, and kept smoky fires--- But two more common methods were to smear mud on their bodies, and they wore the aromatic Sweet grass around their necks, or placed around their huts, which deterred the mosquitos-----
Looking forward to learning more about the original indigenous inhabitants of Texas, where my settler ancestors arrived less than two hundred years ago.
Ive been doing alot of research on this topic since heading back home around nagedotchez about 10 days ago. I appreciate this, the information is scant. People have no idea the history of this coastline.
@@waynepolo6193 Yeah that's correct. It's near in the since that houston is to port arthur, and about the same region, but i never even considered the town before a week or two ago.
I am a native of Nueces County TX on the lower coastal plain. I also lived in Refugio, TX, for about 5 and a half years, in my youth. The Bays and estuaries were my home. I loved to hunt and fish. As I got older, I learned to appreciate fishing in the Gulf of Mexico along the Mustang and Padre Islands. The prevailing southeasterly winds blew out of the Gulf, across the Bays, including Baffin, Oso, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Aransas, and Copano, onto the flat farmland, stopped only by the Oaks and Pecans along the Creeks, Rivers and Arroyos. The oil and gas, ranching, farming and related shipping, along with fishing, were industries providing the driving forces in the economy of the area. I enjoyed the documentary, although brief. Points/artifacts were found along the rivers and creeks that permeated the farmlands.
I dig and collect artifacts on private property close to the Texas coastline. I have a very similar artifact as the one at 0:45, it’s called a whelk shell adze, mine has a small stippling pattern on the concave side.
The Ancient Mesoamericans made many many thousands of books although almost all of them were burned during the spanish invasion. only very very few survive today, although on mesoamerican temples and architecture there are many written inscriptions. The Mesoamericans did trade with pre columbian North Americans. And if all those mesoamerican codices or books hadn't been burned by the spanish, who's knows what knowledge we would have today. The Calmecac Library in Tenochtitlan alone contained hundreds of these codices/books, on all sorts of topics including history
@@diegochavez4505 Let’s be honest here. What would you do if you arrived at a distant land and witnessed mass human sacrifice and industrial cannibalism? Nothing of value was lost, I promise you.
Living and working in the farm lands around Corpus Christi I have found a lot of camp sites. Quit few arrow points manly Perdiz along with triangular points. Also shell tools and scrapers.
Living on the Texas Gulf Coast. I have often thought that these people had to have been tough as leather for just the 🦟 let alone the harsh weather conditions.
It was horrible. Cabeza de vaca noted in his narrative that in order to sleep at night, the natives had to sleep next to fires that produced a lot of smoke to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn’t breathe or see cause the smoke but at least it kept the bugs away.
This is a good video in general based on the archeology but it does not get into any speculation of possible interactions of the people with themselves and others that may have been suggested by the finds discussed. It may not be the point of the video as with others that included such considerations in more detail but it is limited as to a fuller picture of the people(s).
The real truth is that Indigenous People lived throughout the lands from the top of North America to the tip of South America. Just count the indigenous tribes that have barely survived.
I believe These brothers lived throughout The entire bay(s) Before they were even given names. Alike The Great Mississippi the bays that brought the Glacier and Frozen melts to the Gulf were also accessible to travel up "NORTH" OF EACH INCOMING RIVER(CANOE) OR FOOT AND LATER HORSE TO INHABIT THE NORTHERN PORTIONS. WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HORSE BONES FOUND IN AMERICA "BEFORE" THE SPANISH.
We used to go to Matagorda bay and camp on the beach in summer, when i was a kid. It was MISERABLE! The mosquitoes would literally eat you alive! Not even joking...i dreaded those little camping trips but was too young to stay at home by myself. Second degree sunburn and covered in mosquitoe bites. What was wrong with my parents!!?? Anyway, i cant imagine living that way day in and day out. They must have covered their skin in mud or sap to protect it. Otherwise they couldnt have lived through it. Seriously. It's that bad.
bison were stampeded by grass fires as northers blew in in the winter...the panicked animals plunged into bayous, such as Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Indian hunters killed the fallen beasts while the women processed the meat and hides in the frigid temperatures, smoking and drying it and preserving it so it would not spoil...everything was used, including the bones and horns....in the summer, the tribes returned to the edges of the bays where fish, crabs, oysters, and other sea life provided the food
The mosquitoes are way too bad to allow for continuous habitation and there is no bedrock, flint or obsidian. They probably visited the coast during the winters.
I grew up on the Texas coast. My Dad had a shrimpboat when I was small. We ate A LOT of seafood! I remember church fish-fries at the beach. They would have a huge pot (like a witches pot) hanging over a fire. The women would bring all the side dishes: potato salad, corn on the cob, watermelon, peach pie, etc. About 10 of the men would take a big seine & walk it out about chest deep & slowly walk it back to shore. Whatever was in the net that was good was cleaned, etc & fried in the oil. There was also a big metal garbage can with water & crab-boil in it over another fire & crabs & shrimp went in there. The smaller fish etc got thrown back into the gulf. There were no limits on what or how much one could keep. No private beaches & cars could drive onto the beach. It was a lot of fun. A great time to be a child. I'm in California now, but I'll always be a Texas girl.❤❤❤
From my understanding, these people were pretty much insane. Having lived with the mosquitoes, the sand, and the sun of the Gulf Coast of Texas I can well understand that they would be. On the other hand, the cannibal thing is taking it a bit far.
The karankawas were NOT cannibals. In fact they considered cannibalism an evil thing and almost killed shipwrecked Spaniards who partook in cannibalism to survive. The karankawa cannibal myth was made up by the whites. The Tonkawa people were cannibals though, that’s well known.
The Indians that lived on Padre Island were known as Karankawa Indians. They didn't wear any clothes when it was warm. During the winters they went inland and lived with other Indian tribes. They were cruel to their women and were canabalistic. I think that it was Cabeza DeVaca that ship wrecked on the Island and the Krankawas chased them down the Island and when they caught one of the Spanards that cut off pieces of flesh and eat them alive. Only Cabeza DeVaca survived and was held as a slave for several years because he treated their chief. He finally escaped and made his way to Mexico City. It is believed that one winter when they were living with another tribe the Karankaws were left alone with the women, children and old people and the Krankawas killed and ate some of their people. When the warriors returned and saw what they had done, they hunted them down and killed every last one of them. The information that we have of them came from Cabeza DeVaca. At least, this is what I read in the 1960s. Not too sure if I still have the books that I found this in, but this is what I remember reading.
Much history is submerged under the rising seas from the ending of the last Ice Age. We are still coming out of the last Ice Age and sea levels are rising slowly at a predictable rate of around 1/8" a year (according to NOAA). Sea level rise alarmism is not based on fact, but on fear.
@@gamehost1 That is indeed the hard-Spanish pronunciation, so it cannot be wrong. At the same time, even most Hispanic Texans pronounce it with that imaginary 'R', for some reason. 😂
It WAS called Re Few GIo and NEW A CHASS.. but now after over a hundred years everyone decided were going back to Mexican pronunciation about ten years ago by better people than us.
Wait, what? Global warming isn't caused by Donald Trump or fossil fuel burning? You're telling me that this global warming has been going on for tens of thousands of years by nature? That's it, I'm canceling my CNN subscription! On a lighter note, thanks for the insightful knowledge. Love Texas!!!!
It's weird to focus on "texas coast" as a singular region, geographically distinct from the rest of the Gulf Coast. There is little to differentiate the tx coast from Louisiana or mexico, nothing to influence Native Americans in the area as a whole. (I suspect your listed sources (single) may be introducing some desired uniqueness, or ignorance). Still, interesting dive into an understudied region!
The Arankawa peoples lived near current Corpus. The Arankawa are believed to have invented the phrase "It's not the heat; it's the humidity"
Ya know, I think I read that somewhere too.
As a resident of Corpus Christi, I really appreciate a foray into the indigenous peoples of this area. Thank you very much. One thing though, you have misidentified Copano Bay (which is the upper portion of Aransas Bay) as Nueces Bay which is actually part of Corpus Christi Bay. Copano Bay was formed by the inflow of the Aransas River while Nueces Bay, likewise, is the termination of the Nueces River.
You’re welcome, glad you liked the video. And thanks for the geographical information
I'm originally from the coast, and I'll tell you one thing: Those folks were hot and mosquito bitten! Big time.
i was about to comment on this also, since it's not a minor error.
Which people(s) are indigenous to the Texas coast?
None.
Amerindians are not indigenous to North/South America.
@@pamelahaltmeyer.1288 Hench why they were nomadic. I think just like today, I would head to the Frio River for a few months.
when i first moved to our new neighborhood in san antonio which was all woods before they cleared it out, the ditches they dug revealed tons of arrowheads and various sea shells, large oystershells the size of footballs. its all covered by large grass now i just remember finding all that stuff when i was a kid. the lakes outside of san antonio you can find arrow heads as well. i can only imagine how many fish where in the texas surf back then, i bet they enjoyed catching those large bull redfish and black drum and tarpon!!
That's why Houston keeps flooding it's supposed to be marsh land not concrete..
You could say that about the whlole Gulf coast
yep. flooding has become so bad in Houston
@@chasemdinestop voting Democrat. Constant property taxes rising and propositions to increases funding for infrastructure passed for nothing to be done about it. Mayor Turner made alot of his friends rich.
True.
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@@lesa2094 good point
We had a large family farm in Corpus along the Oso Creek next to Cabiness Field and often found artifacts. I still have two large conch shells with a hole scratched into the backs of them. My father told me that as kids that they found a leather or string necklace made of sea shells while digging post holes. It disintegrated after they dug it up. I never found any arrow heads out there and I walked all over that farm almost daily for a decade.
Thanks!
You’re welcome, and thanks for the Super Thanks!
God, thank you for your guidance through the living word of God. I pray that your people will humble themselves and begin praying God in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen 🙏
The shells with holes in them were definitely used as weights for fishing nets. My friend has five of them in his collection. I’m hesitant to say where, but you can see multiple oyster shell mounds from the highway.
Interesting. Thanks friend!
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The holes in shells are from whelks using their tongue to bore a hole through shells to slurp the insides up.
Thank you for making this! I feel like I can learn about my ancestors better :)
Thanks so much for all this inf on the early inhabitants of Texas! I loved it!
Any evidence as to how the Texas coast native Americans were impacted by hurricanes? Might it be the seasonal migration inland away from the shores was due to the hurricane season? Seasonal hurricanes from late Spring to early Fall would make living on the coast during hurricane season dangerous and the building of large permanent structures near the shore economically impractical.
I live here, been through every hurricane since Ceilia, what’s not wiped out, gets picked up in case another MF’er blows. I’m sure they did the same… I mean we had Port A back up in a month, and it was Harvey’s bitch. I say we cause I was in it till it was finished…. There’s still folks missing from Ike…. Wipes out lots of things man… you’d trip when you’re on the tidal surge but no storm side… beach combing gets insanely… sad… folks lives floating up everywhere…
My uneducated guess would be that they, just like us until 1950, had no idea a storm was coming and no idea where it came from and where it went. The temps were much more moderate on the coast, which would be a big draw in every season. Knowing the coastal areas all up and down the Texas coast, I would say the odds of surviving almost any hurricane would be low if you were within 5 miles of the coast.
The Karankawa had settlements about 10-20 miles in, along the tidal portion of the rivers. Close enough to partake, but far enough to get away.
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@FelonyVideos if the Temps were more moderate hurricanes would probably be less frequent
@@SpicyTexan64 The coastal temps are more moderate than the temps 20 to 50 miles inland, is what I meant.
Great video! I enjoy it! Thank you for sharing the video! 👍👍
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca is a great insight into the lives of these Texas coast natives. Most of them didn’t even choose to live on the coast, but were forced there due to stronger inland tribes who would kill them if they went into the interior of Texas. Most of the time they were starving, terrorized by mosquitos, and devastated by the elements. Texas coast life was a very difficult life.
Cabeza de Vaca's journal is a great read.
I've lived on the Texas coast.
Yes, it's harsh. But, it's abundant in resources, and they're easy to harvest.
Yes, there are shellfish. But, fish are easy to harvest too.
Some friends & I lined up in knee deep water off a grass bank off a sandy beach. Our women were waiting on shore. After a quieting down period, we charged at the grass. Sticks & pieces pvc pipe hitting the water beside us. We drove redfish, sand trout, speckled trout, mullet, shrimp, & bait fish onto the beach.
I knew a fish & game warden. He was invited to observe. We had to throw the game fish, Red's & specks back. But, the sand trout & shrimp we could keep. (Most of the shrimp went back. Too small.)
His thought was, "This is an ancient fishing technique. It should be allowed. You have to get dirty doing it. It should be allowed."
We, including the warden & his wife, headed back home with the sand trout. The fish were cleaned by the men, including the warden, (never filet sand trout. They turn to mush.) Scale, gut, & remove the head to cook whole.
The women cooked them. Pan fried, broiled, grilled & Mediterranean style. We all had fish.
It is a paradise. Sure, there's the mosquitoes. But, the whole ecosystem is based on the mosquitoe. The bait fish & grass shrimp eat mosquitoe larvae. It goes up & down the food chain from there.
We have ways to keep the damned muzzles off.
Whoa, thanks for that insight. Dang.
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It still is in many ways
Yeah the Comanche I believe were the main tribe in Texas during the age of exploration. I find it hard to believe that they wouldnt be trading. Trading in the Americas seems to be extremely prolific when you go further back, the fighting doesnt seem to have started until later. As far as I know we have yet to find any bodies that show wounds from combat.
I’m from the Texas panhandle, so nowhere near the coast but I love learning about Native Americans. Especially those from my home state. I really hope that when I get to heaven, there is a Time Machine type thing where you can go back to any period and observe the people from that time. I’d love to just wonder the Texas panhandle like 500 years ago and just observe the humans that lived on the same ground I live on now.
Love this channel, excited to see it grow
My cousin and uncle worked as surveyors in Rio Grande City and throughout the Mission Valley and amassed a significant collection of projectile points and darts, some with the shaft still attached. This presentation answers a lot of questions I had as a kid. TY.
Yep I have seen massive burial points stolen from the dead by surveyors, I told them to put the gifts back causen it aint right to still from the dead of your own kind, lest you be curse! God, I laughed so hard as I watched their eyes whiten knowing they could not do either! Escape the curse or return that to which it belonged.
Can you make a video on the chichimeca tribes and archeology of northern mexico ? It is one of the more understudied places.
Thanks for bringing that region to my attention. I’m adding it to my list of topics to cover.
@@WorldChronicles1can’t wait to see it!!
Good request. I know that name but not the history. Thanks friend.
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The chichimeca were dope
YOOO as a tejano thank u for this
Same
You’re welcome!
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Man what a great video! Thank you
You’re welcome!
Did you come across the Cayo people in your research? My dad is from the Corpus Christi area and grew up near the Cayo del Oso which was seemingly named after the prehistoric native people from that area. From what I’ve found on them, there were excavations done but they decided it was just a burial site, but that was back in the 60s I think. So I didn’t know if there may be some more modern research about them.
Also thank you for highlighting these native peoples in our area. I am from the Texas Coast too so I am very familiar with the Karankawa and Aranama tribes in my hometown. Not many people talk about them when talking about Native American tribes especially here in Texas.
Man, 5 minute walk from my house on Padre island there’s burial mounds, bones, artifacts, etc. literally laying around if you know where to look. The secret is, don’t tell anyone where to look. Let it lay. Mad respect to ancestral beach bums….. throw down some oysters…
Bruh, I live out across nueces bay at white point…I know of a couple old sites where they’d collect and shuck oysters….and your right…let em lay
Those homies were the original salt life crew lol
Yes! Found the same down along Port Lavaca Indianola area. Shell middens and such. Pretty sure many sites are about a 100 yards or so off coastline,forever submerged
I found a massacre were like 30 natives are lying at laguna atascosa .
I heard of many small pipes along Leopard St. Maybe native belongings or just the crackheads migrating from Flour Bluff.
This old man told me he finds artifacts from time to time out on the island. I have never been lucky enough to find anything. He also said there’s Spanish gold out on PINS that he won’t tell me about either…
Awesome job thanks to you and your team 😊
I wanna know how they survived the damned mosquitos . Those things are horrendous after sundown.
They coated themselves in grease from alligator fat and that’s what kept the bugs at bay.
It was horrible. Cabeza de vaca noted in his narrative that in order to sleep at night, the natives had to sleep next to fires that produced a lot of smoke to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn’t breathe or see cause the smoke but at least it kept the bugs away. That’s just one way they survived the onslaught of mosquitoes.
Wrong.
@@flintsky7706 So mosquitoes weren't horrendous after sundown? Or, they don't want to know how they survived?
The natives in the South utilized those methods to ward off mosquitos-- Yes they smeared animal fats on them, and kept smoky fires--- But two more common methods were to smear mud on their bodies, and they wore the aromatic Sweet grass around their necks, or placed around their huts, which deterred the mosquitos-----
Very cool channel!
Hey, thanks for the early weekend upload!
You’re welcome!
Love history thanks for the video
Good video.
Great video, can you do a video on the eastern woodlands next
Glad you liked my video. I plan on doing a video about that region soon.
Good idea, FR.
Looking forward to learning more about the original indigenous inhabitants of Texas, where my settler ancestors arrived less than two hundred years ago.
Ive been doing alot of research on this topic since heading back home around nagedotchez about 10 days ago. I appreciate this, the information is scant.
People have no idea the history of this coastline.
Nacogdoches?
@@waynepolo6193 Yeah that's correct.
It's near in the since that houston is to port arthur, and about the same region, but i never even considered the town before a week or two ago.
Man take me back to this, no phones in sight, people just living
I am a native of Nueces County TX on the lower coastal plain. I also lived in Refugio, TX, for about 5 and a half years, in my youth. The Bays and estuaries were my home. I loved to hunt and fish. As I got older, I learned to appreciate fishing in the Gulf of Mexico along the Mustang and Padre Islands. The prevailing southeasterly winds blew out of the Gulf, across the Bays, including Baffin, Oso, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Aransas, and Copano, onto the flat farmland, stopped only by the Oaks and Pecans along the Creeks, Rivers and Arroyos. The oil and gas, ranching, farming and related shipping, along with fishing, were industries providing the driving forces in the economy of the area. I enjoyed the documentary, although brief. Points/artifacts were found along the rivers and creeks that permeated the farmlands.
I find it amazing that people were here before the pyramids were built in Egypt.
Imagine how much insane amounts of cool stuff is just out there off the world’s coasts….
I dig and collect artifacts on private property close to the Texas coastline. I have a very similar artifact as the one at 0:45, it’s called a whelk shell adze, mine has a small stippling pattern on the concave side.
The Ancient Mesoamericans made many many thousands of books although almost all of them were burned during the spanish invasion. only very very few survive today, although on mesoamerican temples and architecture there are many written inscriptions. The Mesoamericans did trade with pre columbian North Americans. And if all those mesoamerican codices or books hadn't been burned by the spanish, who's knows what knowledge we would have today. The Calmecac Library in Tenochtitlan alone contained hundreds of these codices/books, on all sorts of topics including history
In reality these “books” were just different recipes on how to prepare human flesh.
The western religious cults who started this country don't want the truth out!!
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@@diegochavez4505 Let’s be honest here. What would you do if you arrived at a distant land and witnessed mass human sacrifice and industrial cannibalism? Nothing of value was lost, I promise you.
Nonsense, if that were true European museums would be full of them
We making it out of Corpus Christi with this one boys🎉🎉🎉
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Literally my FAVORITE topic.
Seashell axes r cool
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I used to live in Portland a block from the water... lots of oysters
I appreciate the video and the way you correctly pronounced Refugio.
Yuh my memory from Texas history in 7th grade isn’t that bad 😊
Please make a video on the Florida civilizations
Nothing about the Comecrudo/Carrizo???
Thank you .
Living and working in the farm lands around Corpus Christi I have found a lot of camp sites. Quit few arrow points manly Perdiz along with triangular points. Also shell tools and scrapers.
Interesting, friend.
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What tribe was in Brownsville Texas
I found a site in back of San Antonio Bay .lots of artifacts in about two to three feet of water
I would love if you did a pre history of the State of Utah and the native tribes that lived their
Living on the Texas Gulf Coast. I have often thought that these people had to have been tough as leather for just the 🦟 let alone the harsh weather conditions.
yoo lets goooo new video :D :D :D
Can you please do maine! Or new england !
Consider that biting flys would seasonally make life unbearable along coasts. Time to be somewhere else.
It was horrible. Cabeza de vaca noted in his narrative that in order to sleep at night, the natives had to sleep next to fires that produced a lot of smoke to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn’t breathe or see cause the smoke but at least it kept the bugs away.
Those fish at the 5:00 mark look too fresh to have been killed by the prehistoric inhabitants of that site.
Have you ever thought that the photo was taken 5000 years ago?
Hhmmmm I was thinking the same thing!
This is a good video in general based on the archeology but it does not get into any speculation of possible interactions of the people with themselves and others that may have been suggested by the finds discussed. It may not be the point of the video as with others that included such considerations in more detail but it is limited as to a fuller picture of the people(s).
I know a spot right outside odem that has native American burial grounds or mass graves.
Thanks for doing this video. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤👽👽🌹🌹🌹
You labeled copano bay as nueces bay. Just a note.
Very good
Tough to realize a totally different civilization lived here in Texas before us.
True.
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Native peoples were everywhere
Thanks
The secret code they created made no sense, even to them.
-I'm from Corpus . I love skateboarding here .
Way to go Rosemary! Sk8!
The real truth is that Indigenous People lived throughout the lands from the top of North America to the tip of South America. Just count the indigenous tribes that have barely survived.
I just subbed based on video title alone!
Good point, yeah!
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while its on your plate that's my philosophy.
This is the new Dallas cowboys offense ?
That’s not Nueces Bay, that’s Port Bay.
I believe These brothers lived throughout The entire bay(s) Before they were even given names. Alike The Great Mississippi the bays that brought the Glacier and Frozen melts to the Gulf were also accessible to travel up "NORTH" OF EACH INCOMING RIVER(CANOE) OR FOOT AND LATER HORSE TO INHABIT THE NORTHERN PORTIONS. WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HORSE BONES FOUND IN AMERICA "BEFORE" THE SPANISH.
I would give every thing to live back then
5,000 years from now they are going to find treasure beer bottle /cans
We used to go to Matagorda bay and camp on the beach in summer, when i was a kid. It was MISERABLE! The mosquitoes would literally eat you alive! Not even joking...i dreaded those little camping trips but was too young to stay at home by myself. Second degree sunburn and covered in mosquitoe bites. What was wrong with my parents!!?? Anyway, i cant imagine living that way day in and day out. They must have covered their skin in mud or sap to protect it. Otherwise they couldnt have lived through it. Seriously. It's that bad.
bison were stampeded by grass fires as northers blew in in the winter...the panicked animals plunged into bayous, such as Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Indian hunters killed the fallen beasts while the women processed the meat and hides in the frigid temperatures, smoking and drying it and preserving it so it would not spoil...everything was used, including the bones and horns....in the summer, the tribes returned to the edges of the bays where fish, crabs, oysters, and other sea life provided the food
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
that's not nueces bay. nueces bay is on the back side of corpus christi bay,
Do you think the Rio Grande River was navigated between the Delta and, oh let's say, today's New Mexico ? TY.
Doubtful,as those steep canyons around Boquillas would be a death ride
@@stingylizard TY
The mosquitoes are way too bad to allow for continuous habitation and there is no bedrock, flint or obsidian. They probably visited the coast during the winters.
No one will ever know our true history
AD is an anachronistic phrase.
I grew up on the Texas coast. My Dad had a shrimpboat when I was small. We ate A LOT of seafood! I remember church fish-fries at the beach. They would have a huge pot (like a witches pot) hanging over a fire. The women would bring all the side dishes: potato salad, corn on the cob, watermelon, peach pie, etc. About 10 of the men would take a big seine & walk it out about chest deep & slowly walk it back to shore. Whatever was in the net that was good was cleaned, etc & fried in the oil. There was also a big metal garbage can with water & crab-boil in it over another fire & crabs & shrimp went in there. The smaller fish etc got thrown back into the gulf. There were no limits on what or how much one could keep. No private beaches & cars could drive onto the beach. It was a lot of fun. A great time to be a child. I'm in California now, but I'll always be a Texas girl.❤❤❤
Hilarious the Texas coastline portrayed in the drawings of the native Americans never existed in Texas
From my understanding, these people were pretty much insane. Having lived with the mosquitoes, the sand, and the sun of the Gulf Coast of Texas I can well understand that they would be. On the other hand, the cannibal thing is taking it a bit far.
Copano Bay- pronounced coe- pa- know
Hoping you will speak about the Aransas Indian who were cannibals...
Karankawas. A myth
The karankawas were NOT cannibals. In fact they considered cannibalism an evil thing and almost killed shipwrecked Spaniards who partook in cannibalism to survive. The karankawa cannibal myth was made up by the whites.
The Tonkawa people were cannibals though, that’s well known.
Good one, yeah!
@@stingylizard Meh.
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I think they ate Bidens uncle
There's a specific pre-historical settlement that was not mentioned, and that's very good, imo.
Mf talked about shells for 23 minutes
Good point and it was awesome wasn't it!?
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@@MrSirlulzalot ion think I would use the word “awesome”, but admittedly I watched the whole thing 😂😂
The Indians that lived on Padre Island were known as Karankawa Indians. They didn't wear any clothes when it was warm. During the winters they went inland and lived with other Indian tribes. They were cruel to their women and were canabalistic. I think that it was Cabeza DeVaca that ship wrecked on the Island and the Krankawas chased them down the Island and when they caught one of the Spanards that cut off pieces of flesh and eat them alive. Only Cabeza DeVaca survived and was held as a slave for several years because he treated their chief. He finally escaped and made his way to Mexico City. It is believed that one winter when they were living with another tribe the Karankaws were left alone with the women, children and old people and the Krankawas killed and ate some of their people. When the warriors returned and saw what they had done, they hunted them down and killed every last one of them. The information that we have of them came from Cabeza DeVaca. At least, this is what I read in the 1960s. Not too sure if I still have the books that I found this in, but this is what I remember reading.
it's pronounced "COPE a No" bay
Eating all those oysters dispels the myths that they were one of the lost tribes of Israel. 😂
Albiet is pounounced [all- bee -it] NOT "al bite"
It's also spelled "albeit"
Much history is submerged under the rising seas from the ending of the last Ice Age. We are still coming out of the last Ice Age and sea levels are rising slowly at a predictable rate of around 1/8" a year (according to NOAA). Sea level rise alarmism is not based on fact, but on fear.
Good grief. Thanks MAGA Man. We were worried you wouldn't show.
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Crus·ta·cean - /krəˈstāSH(ə)n/ - not cretacian.....
They covered their bodies in mud,
Not too bad until you mispronounced Refugio.
Rafeereo
Ruh-fuhr-ee-o
Or
Reh-fuhr-ee-o
Depends on your chosen accent.
R(u/e)ff-ur-ee-o, that's the way I've always pronounced it.
Re-foo-heo. .sounds correct just as it is pronounced in Spanish!
@@gamehost1 That is indeed the hard-Spanish pronunciation, so it cannot be wrong. At the same time, even most Hispanic Texans pronounce it with that imaginary 'R', for some reason. 😂
It WAS called Re Few GIo and NEW A CHASS..
but now after over a hundred years everyone decided were going back to Mexican pronunciation about ten years ago by better people than us.
albeit is pronounced "all-be-it"
WHAT! Since the last glacial maximum sea levels have been constantly rising?? The best Iron Age settlements off Britain are under water.
Learn how to pronounce words before you hit record.
The story is always the same, people were there, got raped, murdered, then their land was stolen from them.
That’s history for ya, unfortunately
Why is their history called prehistory? Shouldn’t it just be history?
Wait, what? Global warming isn't caused by Donald Trump or fossil fuel burning? You're telling me that this global warming has been going on for tens of thousands of years by nature? That's it, I'm canceling my CNN subscription!
On a lighter note, thanks for the insightful knowledge.
Love Texas!!!!
It's weird to focus on "texas coast" as a singular region, geographically distinct from the rest of the Gulf Coast. There is little to differentiate the tx coast from Louisiana or mexico, nothing to influence Native Americans in the area as a whole. (I suspect your listed sources (single) may be introducing some desired uniqueness, or ignorance).
Still, interesting dive into an understudied region!
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