Indigenous peoples of Florida

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The Indigenous peoples of Florida are the diverse Native American groups, including historic tribes like the Calusa, Timucua, and Apalachee and modern Seminole and Miccosukee nations, whose cultures, histories, and descendants are rooted in the Florida peninsula.

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Indigenous peoples of Florida canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American peoples
ethnic group
indigenous peoples
affectedBy British colonial period in Florida
Indian Removal policies
Seminole Wars
Spanish Florida
surface form: Spanish colonization of Florida

United States expansion into Florida
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Atlantic coast of Florida
surface form: Atlantic Coast of Florida

Everglades
Florida Panhandle
Florida Gulf Coast
surface form: Gulf Coast of Florida

interior peninsula of Florida
descendantsInclude Miccosukee people
Seminole
surface form: Seminole people
economy fishing
hunting and gathering
maize agriculture
shellfish harvesting
firstEuropeanContactPeriod 16th century
firstEuropeanContactWith Spanish explorers
governedBy tribal governments
hasHistoricTribe Ais
Apalachee
Calusa
Mayaimi
Mocama
Potano
S saturated Timucua chiefdoms
Tequesta
Timucua
Tocobaga
hasModernNation Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Seminole
surface form: Seminole Tribe of Florida
heritagePreservedIn archaeological sites in Florida
museums in Florida
reservation lands in Florida
languageFamily Apalachee language
Calusa language
Muskogean languages
Timucuan language
locatedIn Florida
Florida Peninsula
surface form: Florida peninsula
materialCulture chickee houses
dugout canoes
mound-building
shell mounds
partOf Eastern Woodlands
surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands

Native Americans
surface form: Native Americans in the United States
recognizedBy Florida
surface form: State of Florida

United States government
surface form: United States federal government
religion traditional Indigenous religions of the Southeastern Woodlands
timeDepth Archaic period
Mississippian period
Paleoindian period
Woodland period

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Maimies partOf Indigenous peoples of Florida
Mound Key culturalHeritageOf Indigenous peoples of Florida
East Florida coastal shell midden tradition associatedWith Indigenous peoples of Florida
Ortona Mounds builtBy Indigenous peoples of Florida