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Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1273-5. Milanich, Jerald T. (1995). Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1360-7. Milanich, Jerald T. (1998). Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present ...
Little Havana, Miami, Florida; Los Alamitos, California ("The Cottonwoods") Los Alamos, New Mexico ("the poplars") Los Angeles, California ("The Angels", a shortened version of the original name Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncola, "Our Lady Queen of Angels of Porziuncola"), seat of Los Angeles County, California
Letter of Intent withdrawn 10/20/2000; merged with Florida Tribe of Eastern Creek Indians [25] Ocali Nation, [40] Ocala, FL; Oklewaha Band of Seminoles. [24] Ouachita Indians of Florida and America [40] Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation, [79] Clewiston, FL. Also Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples.
Juan Ponce de León is credited as the first European to have contact with Florida's indigenous people in 1513. Ponce de León met with hostility from tribes that may have been the Ais and the Tequesta before rounding Cape Sable to meet the Calusa , the largest and most powerful tribe in South Florida.
In 1521, Ponce de León returned to southwest Florida to plant a colony, but the Calusa drove the Spanish out, mortally wounding Ponce de León. [ 21 ] The Pánfilo de Narváez expedition of 1528 and the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1539 both landed in the vicinity of Tampa Bay , north of the Calusa domain.
As of 2000, before being annexed to Miami Gardens, English as a first language accounted for 74.96% of all residents, while Spanish accounted for 17.91%, French Creole accounted for 4.61%, French made up 1.58%, West African Niger-Congo languages (Kru, Igbo and Yoruba) were at 0.52%, and Yiddish was the mother tongue for 0.39% of the population. [8]
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The Bay of Pigs Museum, also known as the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library, [1] is the official museum in memory of the Bay of Pigs Invasion's Brigade 2506 in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. History [ edit ]