Public Lecture Series - Bay Education Center

“Restoring Indigenous History to the Central Texas Coast”

Dr. Peter Moore

Professor of History, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

For thousands of years the Karankawas and their ancestors inhabited the central Texas coast, yet their history is all but forgotten, and the world they made has been erased from the landscape. This talk surveys the history of Indigenous peoples of the coast and coastal plain, examines the process of and reasons for its erasure, and explores how we can restore it both to our state’s historical narrative and in our schools and communities.