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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.
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. Like the Calusa, the Tequesta hunted small game, but depended more upon roots and less on shellfish in their diets. They did not practice cultivated agriculture.
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
Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Native American village that could date back 2,000 years in Miami. It's being called one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US. The Miami Herald ...
"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 ...
Long a favorite of older people and retirees, Tequesta is growing younger. The proof is in the seven coffee shops within its 2-mile footprint.
Extensive indigenous occupation stretching back 2,500 years discovered at mouth of Miami River.
By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. [3] Bernard Romans reported sighting many abandoned Tequesta villages when he visited the area in the 1770s. [5]