Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Indianer

By the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan mission effort had expanded northward to the Carolinas, and westward to present day Tallahassee. It is estimated that there were seventy Franciscan missionaries in some forty Spanish doctrinas in Florida, ministering to about 25,000 Apalachee,
Besides conversion to Christianity, the missions organized the Indians to provide

Email: jtm@ufl.edu Amazon Author Bio Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, 1971 Concurrent Appointments: Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies Research Interests Eastern United States
Theodore de Bry’s Engravings of Timucua Indians.

Below you will find recommended books, organized by theme. These lists are not exhaustive, but represent some of the best information on Florida history and prehistory.
Indian Art of Ancient Florida Barbara A. Purdy 1996.

Dolls and Tourism In the early 1900s, Florida became a tourist destination, where people wanted to see the “exotic Indians” of the Everglades. The Seminole and Miccosukee realized that they could sell dolls to tourists to make money, which they needed because they were living in desperate poverty.
Musa Isle Indian Village Figure 1: Post card of Musa Isle Indian Village (2002-16

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
More Cultural Heritage Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian

1565 August 28 – Sighted land of Florida on St. Augustine’s feast day September 7 – Captains Morales and Patiño disembark with 30 men to dig an entrenchment to protect people and supplies while the site of the fort is more carefully chosen September 8 – Menéndez formally claims Florida, u
Early November – Menéndez establishes a garrison near the Indian River in the Ais

Although St. Augustine was small, remote and poor, life in the town was governed by traditional Spanish municipal organization, with a mayor and city officials in addition to the military and crown-appointed government officials. The daily, weekly and monthly practices of the Catholic Church were a
A great many Spanish soldiers married Indian women, which, by 1565, was already a

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
More Cultural Heritage Excavation finds clues of cultural blending in Seminole Indian

By his mid-20s, Keith Reeves had traveled the world. When he settled in Florida in the 1960s, however, it was in many ways an alien place: No ancient monuments like the pyramids he climbed in Egypt or mountains like those on South Pacific islands where he lived as a “Navy brat,” but a wet-hot, often
It was the bright colors of Seminole Indian art and wear that first caught Keith

The reduced level of external crown support, and the increasing diversion of resources and activity to the hinterland farms and missions had a negative economic impact on the residents of seventeenth century St. Augustine. Food, clothing and Spanish material goods were increasingly scarce, and resi
Augustine through the century, as hostile, anti-Spanish Yamassee Indians attacked