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In the Apalachee Province (roughly present-day western Florida and southwestern Georgia) there were 14 mission communities with a total population in 1680 of approximately 8,000. Many, but not all, of these missions were populated by the Apalachee; others were inhabited by other tribes that had migrated southward to the area. [6]
The Apalachee played a ball game, sometimes known as the "Apalachee ball game", described in detail by Spaniards in the 17th century. The fullest description, [8] however, was written as part of a campaign by Father Juan de Paiva, a priest at the mission of San Luis de Talimali, to have the game banned, and some of the practices described may have been exaggerated.
A Map of the Location of the Chine Peoples. The Chine may have migrated into Apalachee Province in the early 1670s. All of the peoples living beyond Apalachee Province in the 17th century, except for the Chiscas, spoke the same or a closely related language, as did the Chatot, but the Spanish viewed the Chatot and Chine peoples as separate bands.
Mission San Luis de Apalachee (also known as San Luis de Talimali) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in 1656 in the Florida Panhandle, two miles west of the present-day Florida Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida. It was located in the descendent settlement of Anhaica (also as Anhayca Apalache or Inihayca) capital of Apalachee Province.
The Spanish heard of outside people moving into Apalachicola Province in the 1670s, including the Muscogee-speaking town of Coweta. Later the same year the bishop of Cuba produced a list of potential targets for missions, which included Coweta ("Cueta" to the Spanish) in the northern part of Apalachee Province. While Coweta later claimed to be ...
Missions in Spanish Florida Mission Name Location Province or Region Active Period [A] References Apalo [B] Potano: Unknown [1] Ajacán [B] 37.23796, -76.50743 [2] Virginia: 1570 [3] Assumpción del Puerto or Assumpción de Nuestra Señora [C] Apalachee: 1675 [4] Attissimi, or Atisme, or Jizime Jororo: 1693–1697 [5] Cofa [B] (mouth of ...
The mission of Santa Isabel de Utinahica was located at the junction of the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers. [45] A people called "Chisca" by the Spanish, who Hann believes later become known as Yuchis, attacked western Timucua and Apalachee missions around 1650. In 1651 Governor Vallecilla sent a Spanish soldier to Guale to determine if Chiscas ...
Two missions were established among the Chacato in June 1674. The first mission, San Carlos Borromeo, was in the principal Chacato village of Achercatane (later listed as Yatcatane), four days journey northwest of Apalachee Province. A second mission, San Nicolás de Tolentino, was established in the village of Atanchia.