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Keys Indians – Name given by the Spanish to Indians living in the Florida Keys in the middle of the 18th century, probably consisted of Calusa and refugees from other tribes to the north. Luca – Town near the Withlacoochee River north of Guazoco, passed through by the de Soto expedition.
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
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"
Florida: 694: 57.13 (147.96) ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized American Indian tribes who ...
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 ...
The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted to prairie and xeric scrub conditions. Large animals became extinct in Florida around 11,000 years ago. Climate changes 6,500 years ago brought a wetter landscape. The Paleo-Indians slowly adapted to the new conditions.
A burial mound, used by the Ais tribe for 500 to 1,000 years rises about twenty feet in Old Fort Park on Indian River Drive in Fort Pierce. This location later became an Army fort used during the Second Seminole War (1838–1842) and it may be the location of a Spanish settlement, mission and military outpost dating back to 1567.
There is a State-recognized tribe with the same name, Meherrin Indian Tribe (I). Ne'Ha-Tsunii Indian Nation [78] Nee Tribe (a.k.a. Nuluti Equani Ehi Tribe and Near River Dwellers), [25] East Bend, NC; Ridge Band of Cherokees, [25] Ridgecraft, NC; Roanoke-Hatteras Indian Tribe, Elizabeth City, NC, [130] formerly the Roanoke-Hatteras Indians of ...