GUALE INDIANS

THIS WAS AN HISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEFDOM ALONG THE COAST OF PRESENT DAY GEORGIA AND SEAS ISLANDS. SPANISH FLORIDA BUILT 20 A ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARY SYSTEM IN THE CHIEFDOM IN THE LATE 1500'S. DURING THE LATE 17TH CENTURY THE GUALE WERE HIT WITH DISEASE AND WAR WITH THE NEIGHBOR TRIBES. SOME MIGRATED TO THE MISSION OF SPAINISH FLORIDA , WHILE OTHERS REMAINED TO THE GEORGIA COASTLINE.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL STIES SHOW THAT THE ANCESTORS OF THE GUALE WERE ALONG THE GEORGIA COAST AND SEA ISLANDS DURING 1150. THE PREHISTORIC PEOPLE ORGANIZED INTO CHIEFDOMS AS WELL. THEY BUILT PLATFORM MOUNDS, MAJOR EARTHWORKS THAT REQUIRED ORGANIZED LABOR OF MANY PEOPLE. THEY USED MOUNDS FOR CEREMONIAL, RELIGIOUS AND BURIAL PURPOSES.

IN 1562 FRENCH EXPLORERS CONTACTED THE GUALE AND MAINTAINED GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE SPANISH MET THEM IN ST. AUGUSTINE FLORIDA AND THE GUALE TERRITORY BECAME ONE OF FOUR MISSION PROVINCES OF SPANISH FLORIDA. BY 1700'S THE SPANISH BUILT SIX MISSIONS IN THEIR TERRITORY. THEY THE GUALE KEPT UP SOME TRADE WITH THE FRENCH.

THE GUALE REJECTED MOST SPANINSH AUTHORITY AND RELOCATED TO NEW MISSIONS. THEY MOSTLY MOVED TO APALACHEE REGIONS.

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