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Spanish Florida was acquired from Spain in the Adams–Onís Treaty, which took effect July 10, 1821. [1] Parts of West Florida had already been assigned to Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; the remainder and East Florida were governed by a military commissioner with the powers of governor until the territory was organized and incorporated.
The explorer assumed the Spanish-speaker was from Hispaniola, but anthropologists have suggested that communication and trade between Calusa and native people in Cuba and the Florida Keys was common, or that Ponce de León was not the first Spaniard to make contact with the native people of Florida. [14]
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first
Marvin Dunn, one of Florida’s most esteemed historians, will broaden the scope of his “Teach the Truth” tours thanks to a $1.5 million grant courtesy of the Mellon Foundation. The funding ...
The Native American World Beyond Apalachee. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9-780-8130-2982-5. Mahon, John K. (1985) [1967]. History of the Second Seminole War: 1835–1942 (Second ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. ISBN 0-8130-1097-7. Milanich, Jerald T. (1994). Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Gainesville, Florida ...
History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated as a Neo-Latin scientific word during the Renaissance, has always meant "the study (or science) of man". The topics to be included and the terminology have varied historically.
A class like Moor’s underscores the important role HBCUs play in supplementing Black history education among Black students. Born out of the desire to teach Black Americans outside of the ...
Some Florida parents tell CNN they feel the new education standards for Black history – combined with the ban on the AP African American studies course – risk erasing Black history in classrooms.