YAMASEE INDIANS IN FLORIDA

THESE FOLKS WERE A MULTIETHNIC CONFEDERATION OF NATIVE AMERICANS LIVING IN NORTH GEORGIA ON THE COAST. THEY SPOKE MUSKOGEE. HERNANDO DE SOTO EXPEDITION OF 1540 TRAVELLED TO THEIR VILLAGE OF ALTA MAHA. SINCE 1675. THE MISSION WANNSIE WAS INCLUDED IN SPANISH RECORDS OF MISSIONARY PROVINCES OF GUALE AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THEY DID NOT CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY.

IN 16187 SPANIARDS ATTEMPTED TO SEND YAMASEES TO THE WEST INDIES AS SLAVES; THE TRIBE REVOLTED AND MOVED TO THE BRITISH COLONY OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A CENSUS IN 1715 COUNTED 1220 YAMASEE IN 10 VILLAGES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE YAMASEE AND SOUTH CAROLINA COLONISTS CONDUCTED SLAVE RAIDS UPON SPANISH ALLIED INDIANS AND ATTACKED ST. AUGUSTINE. IN 1715 THE YAMASEE JOINED AN INTERTRIBAL WAR AGAINST THE BRITISH THAT TRIGGERED THE YAMASEE WAR. THE BRITISH DROVE THEM ACROSS THE SAVANNAH RIVER INTO SPANISH FLORIDA. THEY MIGRATED SOUTH AND TO ST. AUGUSTINE AND ALLIED WITH THE SPANISH AGAINST THE BRITISH. IN 1727 SOME SURVIVORS JOINED THE SEMINOLE TRIBE AND JOINED THE HITCHITI AND THIS TRIBE DISAPPEARED.

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