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The Mocama were a Native American people who lived in the coastal areas of what are now northern Florida and southeastern Georgia. [1] A Timucua group, they spoke the dialect known as Mocama, the best-attested dialect of the Timucua language .
Both groups were among those Native Americans who aided Dominique de Gourgue in his raid on the Spanish in 1567. [5] After the Tacatacuru made peace with the Spanish, the latter established a fort and a mission, San Pedro de Mocama, on Cumberland Island near the main Tacatacuru town. [5]
The native corn became a traded item and was exported to other Spanish colonies. A black tea called " black drink " (or "white drink" because of its purifying effects) served a ceremonial purpose, and was a highly caffeinated Cassina tea , brewed from the leaves of the yaupon holly tree.
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The Saturiwa were a Timucua chiefdom centered on the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.They were the largest and best attested chiefdom of the Timucua subgroup known as the Mocama, who spoke the Mocama dialect of Timucuan and lived in the coastal areas of present-day northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.
Scholars do not agree as to the number of dialects. Some scholars, including Jerald T. Milanich and Edgar H. Sturtevant, have taken Pareja's Agua Salada (saltwater) as an alternate name for the well-attested Mocama dialect (mocama is Timucua for "ocean"). As such, Mocama is often referred to as Agua Salada in the literature.
The Mocama spoke a dialect of Timucuan also known as Mocama and lived in the coastal areas of southern Georgia and northern Florida. [2] Mission San Pedro was built at the south end of Cumberland Island, near the main village of the Tacatacuru. By 1595 some of the Tacatacuru−Mocama living near the mission were fluent in Spanish.
Crosses were erected by the inhabitants of Oconi and neighboring towns. The people of Oconi and neighboring chiefdoms on the mainland made frequent visits to the mission at San Pedro de Mocama, where they had relatives and friends. [5] The mission of Santiago de Oconi was founded before 1630, possibly between 1613 and 1616. [11]