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This section includes the names of tribes, chiefdoms and towns encountered by Europeans in what is now the state of Florida and adjacent parts of Alabama and Georgia in the 16th and 17th centuries: Ais people – They lived along the Indian River Lagoon in the 17th century and maintained contact with the Spanish in St. Augustine .
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Pages in category "Florida placenames of Native American origin" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
American Indian reservations in Florida (7 P) S. Seminole (10 C, 19 P) T. Tequesta (5 P) Timucua (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Florida"
Fear of local Native American tribes, as well as local wildlife such as alligators, kept the colonists from venturing far from the village where more food could be procured. [2] The working & living conditions led to three hundred colonists seizing a ship and sailing south during the first years.
Some Africans escaping slavery from South Carolina and Georgia fled to Florida, lured by Spanish promises of freedom should they convert to Catholicism, and found their way into the tribe. [42] Seminoles originally settled in the northern portion of the territory, but the 1823 Treaty of Moultrie Creek forced them to live on a 5-million-acre ...
About 68 percent of Florida's immigrant population was working-aged, compared to just 48 percent of the native-born population, according to a 2014 New American Economy paper—making foreign-born ...
Timucua tribes, in common with other peoples in Florida, engaged in limited warfare with each other. The standard pattern was to raid a town by surprise, kill and scalp as many men of the town as possible during the battle, and carry away any women and children that could be captured.