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Native Americans in the United States. 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.
Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census , the population was 321,905. [ 1 ] The county seat and largest city is Pensacola . [ 2 ]
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians are a sovereign nation of Muscogee (Creek) people with deep ancestral connections to lands of the Southeast United States. Members of the Poarch Band are located mostly in Escambia County and parts of Florida. Since the late twentieth century, they have operated three gaming casinos and a hotel on their lands.
The Pensacola were a Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and southwestern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century. They spoke a Muskogean language [citation needed]. They are the source of the name of Pensacola Bay and the city of Pensacola.
90001761 [1] Added to NRHP. December 3, 1990. The Spruce Creek Mound Complex is a prehistoric and early historic archeological site in Port Orange, Florida. The mound complex, major earthworks built out of earth and shell middens, was constructed by ancient indigenous peoples. It is located near Port Orange, on the southwest bank of Spruce Creek.
Indigenous people of the Everglades region. The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what is now the United States approximately 14,000 to 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted to prairie and xeric scrub ...
Numerous internal chiefdoms, 11 dialects. The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia. They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35 chiefdoms, many leading thousands of people. The various groups of Timucua spoke several dialects of the Timucua ...
Religion. Native. The Calusa (/ kəˈluːsə / kə-LOO-sə, Calusa: *ka (ra)luš (i) [ 1 ]) were a Native American people of Florida 's southwest coast. Calusa society developed from that of archaic peoples of the Everglades region. Previous indigenous cultures had lived in the area for thousands of years.