Guale people

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The Guale people were a Native American group who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now Georgia and northern Florida, known for their complex chiefdoms and early, often resistant, interactions with Spanish colonizers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands
alsoKnownAs Gualé
archaeologicalCulture Mississippian tradition
archaeologicalSitesInclude Sapelo Island sites
St. Catherines Island sites
culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands
descendantsPartlyMergedInto Yamasee people
other southeastern Native groups
encountered Spanish explorers
Spanish missionaries
engagedIn fishing
hunting
maize agriculture
shellfish gathering
ethnicGroupOf southeastern North America
experienced population decline after European contact
hadContactWith Spanish Florida
hadEconomyBasedOn agriculture and estuarine resources
hadLeadershipStructure paramount chiefdoms
hadLeadershipTitle chief
hadMissionProvinceName Provincia de Guale
hadSettlementType mound centers
towns with central plazas
hadSocialOrganization chiefdoms
ranked society
inhabitedRegion Sea Islands
surface form: Sea Islands of Georgia

coastal Georgia
northern Florida
languageFamily Muskogean languages
modernLocation Florida
surface form: U.S. state of Florida

U.S. state of Georgia
participatedIn Guale Rebellion of 1597
practiced maize-beans-squash agriculture
religion southeastern Native ceremonialism
resisted Spanish colonization
timePeriod 16th century
17th century
pre-Columbian era
traditionalTerritory Atlantic coast between Savannah River and St. Johns River
used dugout canoes
usedMaterial shell for tools and ornaments
wereAffectedBy epidemic diseases
slave raids
wereDisplacedBy English colonial expansion
Westo raids
wereIncorporatedInto Spanish missions in North America
surface form: Spanish mission system
wereSubjectOf Spanish colonial records

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