Tim Seiter is a PhD candidate in his last semester at Southern Methodist University. HIs department and the Preservation Association (PAPHA) were proud sponsors of his travelling to Port Aransas to enlighten our audience on new findings about the Karankawa people. Not only is Tim Seiter an authority on the Karankawa, he is a galvanizing force that helped Karankawa descendants organize and become visible.
This lecture provides a general overview of the Karankawa peoples from their inception as a culture in the thirteenth century to the present day. Significantly, this presentation rectifies various myths attached to the Karankawa and amends the time-worn narrative that these peoples were destroyed with the onslaught of Anglo-American and Tejano expansion.
Tim is currently putting the finishing touches on a manuscript about eighteenth-century military life in Spanish Texas for UT Press. Seiter has works closely with the Karankawa of Texas, and his dissertation will be a general history of these peoples. His research for that dissertation has appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Texas Highways and The Texas Tribune.
