Apalachee people

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The Apalachee people are a Native American tribe historically located in the Florida Panhandle, known for their complex agricultural society and early contact with Spanish colonizers.

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Apalachee people canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands
contactWith Spanish colonizers
continent North America
country United States of America
culturalArea Southeastern Woodlands
culturalRevival language and traditions documentation efforts
dispersedBy raids from English colonists and their Native allies
encounteredExplorer Hernando de Soto
Pánfilo de Narváez
engagedIn mound-building
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
firstEuropeanContactCentury 16th century
hadMission Mission San Luis de Apalachee
historicalImportance major power in pre-contact Florida Panhandle
knownFor ball games similar to stickball
large ceremonial centers
language Apalachee language
languageFamily Muskogean languages
laterReligion Roman Catholicism
majorConflict Queen Anne's War
missionPeriodCentury 17th century
modernStatus state-recognized group in some jurisdictions
unrecognized tribe at the federal level in the United States
nameEtymology derived from their own autonym or neighboring groups' term
nativeTo Florida Panhandle
Tallahassee region
eastern Florida Panhandle
partOf Spanish mission system in Florida
populationDeclineCentury 18th century
primarySubsistence beans cultivation
maize agriculture
squash cultivation
relatedEthnicGroup Choctaw people
Hitchiti people
Muscogee people
surface form: Muscogee (Creek) people
religion traditional indigenous religion
societalType complex agricultural society
someMigratedTo French colonial Louisiana
surface form: French Louisiana

Mobile region
Pensacola, Florida
surface form: Spanish Pensacola
subsistence fishing
gathering wild foods
hunting
sufferedFrom epidemic diseases
warfare
traditionalRegion Apalachee
surface form: Apalachee Province

Mission San Luis
surface form: Mission San Luis area

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Spanish conquest of Florida opponent Apalachee people
Pensacola people culturallyRelatedTo Apalachee people
Apalachee language spokenBy Apalachee people
Apalachee language ethnicity Apalachee people