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Chisca - The Chisca lived in eastern Tennessee in the 16th century, then appeared throughout much of Spanish Florida in the 17th century. In the 18th century they became known as the Euchee or Yuchi. Costas – Name applied at different times to Ais, Alafaes, Keys Indians and Pojoy, and to otherwise unidentified refugees near St. Augustine. [38]
In the early 18th century, the Calusa came under attack from the Yamasee to the north; many asked to be removed to Cuba, where almost 200 died of illness. Some of these later relocated to Florida, [32] and remnants may have been eventually assimilated into the Seminole culture, which developed during the 18th century. [33]
The Apalachee were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, specifically an Indigenous people of Florida, who lived in the Florida Panhandle until the early 18th century. [1] They lived between the Aucilla River and Ochlockonee River , [ 2 ] at the head of Apalachee Bay , an area known as the Apalachee Province .
The Chacatos were a Native American people who lived in the upper Apalachicola River and Chipola River basins in what is now Florida in the 17th century. The Spanish established two missions in Chacato villages in 1674. As a result of attempts by the missionaries to impose full observance of Christian rites and morals on the newly converted ...
Around 1750, part of the people of Oconee, under the leadership of Ahaya, moved to Florida, settling next to the Alachua Prairie. The members of the tribal town in Florida were joined by people from other Hitchiti-speaking towns and became Seminoles. The remaining Oconee members stayed on the Chattahoochee River through the 18th century.
Approximate territory of the Jaega chiefdom in the late 17th Century. The Jaega (also Jega, Xega, Geiga) were Native Americans living in a chiefdom of the same name, which included the coastal parts of present-day Martin County and northern Palm Beach County, Florida at the time of initial European contact, and until the 18th century.
Bernard Picart Copper Plate Engraving of Florida Indians, circa 1721 [14] At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes. (Anthropologist Henry F. Dobyns has estimated that as many as 700,000 people lived in Florida in 1492). [15]
The indigenous peoples of Florida had largely died out by the early 18th century. [b] Various groups and bands of Muskogean-speakers (called Creek Indians by the British [c], Yamasees and Yuchis moved into the area, often with the encouragement of the Spanish colonial government.