THESE INDIANS WERE A MULTI ETHNIC GROUP IN THE NORTH COASTAL GEORGIA EAR SAVANNAH RIVER. BY 1570 SPAIN ESTABLISHED MISSIONS IN YAMASEE TERRITORY. MANY INDIANS DID NOT ACCEPT CHRISTIANITY. PIRATE ATTACKS ON THE SPANISH MISSION IN 1680 FORCED THE YAMASEE TO MOVE TO FLORIDA. OTHERS RETURNED TO THE SAVANNAH RIVER.
IN 1687 SPANIARDS ATTEMPTED TO SEND THE YAMASEE TO THE WEST INDIES AS SLAVES. THE TRIBE REVOLTED AGAINST SPANISH AND MOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE THEY ESTIMATED SEVERAL VILLAGES. IN 1715 THERE WERE 1200 YAMASEE IN 10 VILLAGES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE CAROLINA COLONISTS CONDUCTED RAIDS ON SPANISH ALLIED INDIANS AND ATTACKED ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA. IN 1720 THE BRITISH ATTACKED YAMASEE AND KILLED MOST OF THEM. SOME SURVIVORS JOINED SEMINOLE AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE HISTORICAL RECORD
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