Florida
The First Seminole War
During the nineteenth century the United States engaged in three wars with the Seminole Indians in Florida: 1816 to about 1824; 1835 to 1842; and […]
Florida
Ancient America: Florida, 1 CE to 940 CE
American Indians occupied, utilized, and developed the peninsula known as Florida for thousands of years. Our knowledge of the ancient past—of Florida, from 2,000 years […]
Ancient America: Florida, BCE
With exciting new finds coming from the OldVero Ice Age Site in Florida which are providing evidence of human occupation 14,000 years ago, this is […]
The Spanish and Indians in Florida, 1513 to 1527
The Spanish invasion of what is now Florida began in 1513. At this time, there were at least 200,000 Native Americans living in the area. […]
Ancient America: Florida BCE
American Indians occupied, utilized, and developed the peninsula known as Florida for thousands of years. Our knowledge of the ancient past-of Florida, BCE-comes primarily from […]
The Fort Marion Prisoners
Following the so-called Red River wars in Oklahoma and Texas in 1875, the army had intended to try Indian leaders and warriors before a military […]
Ancient America: The McKeithen Mounds in Florida
There were a number of ancient American Indian cultures which constructed large earthen mounds in what is now the eastern portion of the United States. […]
The Timucua
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Prior to the Spanish invasion of Florida in 1513, it is estimated that there may have […]
Spanish Missionary Efforts Among Florida Indians
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey When the Spanish exploration of Florida began with Juan Ponce de Leon (the conqueror of Puerto […]