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900 – 1650 CE in Florida and adjacent parts of Alabama and Georgia, by culture Belle Glade culture: 1050 BCE – European contact Glades culture: 550 BCE – European contact Manasota culture: 550 BCE – 800 CE St. Johns culture: 550 BCE – European contact Caloosahatchee culture: 500 BCE – European contact Weeden Island culture 100–1000 CE
The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans. According to the Census Bureau, these figures likely undercount enslaved people. [2] Shaded blocks indicate periods before the colony was established or chartered, as well as times when it was part of another colony.
Map of Belton. Indigenous peoples lived in the area now known as Texas long before Spanish explorers arrived in the area. However, once Spaniards arrived and claimed the area for Spain, a process known as mestizaje occurred, in which Spaniards and Native Americans had mestizo children who had both Spanish and indigenous blood.
Before contact with Europeans, the natives of North America were divided into many different polities, from small bands of a few families to large empires. Modern anthropology assigns some larger divisions into various " culture areas ", regions within which a particular set of cultural, political, subsistence and/or linguistic traits predominated.
The Diego de Guadalajara entrada (expedition) was launched in 1654 to follow up on Castillo's findings. [1] The expedition probably set out before Easter of 1654, led by Sergeant Major Diego de Gaulalajara and including thirty soldiers and 200 Christian Indians, and travelled to the Concho River in Jumano country as had the previous expedition.
Check out what life was like in North Texas town of Weatherford, the Parker County seat since the mid-1800s. We assembled these photos from the Star-Telegram archives.
The French colonization of Texas started in 1685 when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
We dug up these photos showing daily life, from prize hogs at the Keller Fair to a devastating fire in downtown. PHOTOS: Keller, Texas (1920s-1950s). Check out these shots from Star-Telegram archive