YAMASEE INDIANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

THIS TRIBE SPOKE MUSKOGEAN LANGUAGE. THEY ARE EXTINCT BUT SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS REMAIN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. OTHERS MAY HAVE JOINED THE SEMINOLE IN FLORIDA (OKLAWHA BAND). THEIR MAIN VILLAGE WAS ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER IN BEAFORT . ALTA MAHA TOWN WAS ALONG THE OKATIE RIVER. IN 1600 THEY HAD ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE AND BY 1715 IT DROPPED TO 1200.

THEY OFFENDED THE SPANISH GOVERNOR IN 1684 IN GEORGIA., SO THE YAMASEE MOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND WERE GIVEN LAND AT THE MOUTH OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER. IN 1712 THEY HAD 87 WARRIORS FIGHT IN THE TUSCARORA WAR. THEY WERE ANGERED BY SLAVERY AND WHIPPING OF INDIANS, THE YAMASEE ROSE AGAINST THE BRITISH AND KILLED 100 COLONISTS IN 12715. THEY WERE DEFEATED BY THE GOVERNOR AND FLED TO FLORIDA. THEY LIVED IN HUTS OF LOGS AND THATCHED PLANT ROOFS AND BUILT ROUND HOUSES IN THE CENTER OF TOWN. THEY FARMED AND FISHED AND HUNTED DEER AND BEAR. INDIAN MOUNDS WERE USED FOR BURIAL SITES.

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