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A bronze statue of a Tequesta warrior and his family on the Brickell Avenue Bridge, created by Manuel Carbonell. The Tequesta, also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos, were a Native American tribe on the Southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. They had infrequent contact with Europeans and had largely migrated by the middle of the 18th century.
Further examination of the artifacts found at the site, particularly the shell tools, shark teeth, and other items of aquatic origin, showed that they matched perfectly with artifacts known to be from a local tribe, the historic Tequesta. The Tequesta were a tribe who were believed to be primarily nomadic, hunting fish and alligators in the ...
The Spanish described the Tequesta as greatly feared by their sailors, who suspected the natives of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks. Spanish priests wrote that the Tequesta performed child sacrifices to mark the occasion of making peace with a tribe with whom they had been fighting.
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Approximate territory of the Mayaimi tribe. The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century. In the languages of the Mayaimi, Calusa, and Tequesta tribes
The Pompano Beach Mound, located at Indian Mound Park in Pompano Beach, Florida, in Broward County, is a 100-foot (30 m) wide, 7-foot (2.1 m) tall oval Tequesta burial mound. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 2014. [4]
"The Glades Indians and the Plants They Used: Ethnobotany of an Extinct Culture." Archived 2006-05-25 at the Wayback Machine The Palmetto, 17(2):7 -11. (14 September 2002). Accessed 27 November 2005; Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press ...
[3] from the Timucua, Apalachee, and Tequesta tribes. [4] During Córcoles's administration, several joint Creek and English raiding parties invaded Florida. [5] In August 1705, Creek raiders began a twenty-day siege of Abosaya, the new town built by refugees from Ivitachuco.