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The Calusa were more powerful in number and political structure. Their territory was centered on modern-day Ft. Myers, and extended as far north as Tampa, as far east as Lake Okeechobee, and as far south as the Keys. The Tequesta lived on the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula around what is today Biscayne Bay and the Miami River. Both ...
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 Indigenous peoples of Florida lived in what is now known as Florida for more than 12,000 years before the time of first contact with Europeans. However, the indigenous Floridians living east of the Apalachicola River had largely died out by the early 18th century.
The Hutto/Martin site is an archaeological site located in Marion County, Florida, located near the Ocklawaha River.Excavations at the site by Dr. Willet A. Boyer, III between 2006 and 2012 have led archaeologists to believe that it is the location of both a past Native American town and Spanish mission, associated with the Timucuan chiefdom of Acuera described in early contact and mission-era ...
Jerald T. Milanich, anthropologist and archaeologist; curator of archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History; Howard Odum, ecologist; started and directed Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida, founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973; John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and chairman of Department of ...
The government of Florida is established and operated according to the Constitution of Florida and is composed of three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers; the legislative branch, the Florida Legislature, consisting of the Senate and House; and the judicial branch consisting of the ...
This November, you may be surprised to see more names on the ballot for governor than you expect. There are eight other candidates who have qualified for the election for governor of Florida aside ...
The Florida Anthropologist Volume. 70 (3): 122– 139 – via University of Florida Digital Collection. Boyer, Willet III (2021), Reexamining the Geographical and Temporal Extent of the Suwannee Valley Culture: The Floyd's Mound and South Mound Sites, The Florida Anthropologist 2021 74(2):88-106; Bushnell, Amy (1991) [1978].