Mayami
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Mayami is a historical Native American people who lived around Lake Okeechobee in what is now southern Florida.
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American people
ⓘ
indigenous people of North America ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence | sites around Lake Okeechobee (general attribution) ⓘ |
| associatedBodyOfWater |
Lake Mayaimi (historical name of Lake Okeechobee)
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Okeechobee
|
| associatedBodyOfWaterFormerName |
Lake Mayaimi (historical name of Lake Okeechobee)
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Mayaimi
|
| causeOfDecline |
displacement (attributed, likely)
ⓘ
introduced diseases (attributed, likely) ⓘ warfare and raids (attributed, likely) ⓘ |
| colonialPowerInRegion | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ |
| encounteredBy |
Spanish explorers
ⓘ
Spanish missionaries ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | region around Lake Okeechobee ⓘ |
| fate | population declined after European contact ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early colonial period
ⓘ
Pre-Columbian era ⓘ
surface form:
pre-Columbian era
|
| languageFamily |
Muskogean languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Muskogean languages (attributed, uncertain)
|
| locatedInThePresentDay |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
southern Florida ⓘ |
| modernCulturalLegacy |
Lake Mayaimi (historical name of Lake Okeechobee)
ⓘ
surface form:
name preserved in Lake Okeechobee’s earlier name "Lake Mayaimi"
name related to the city name "Miami" (via Lake Mayaimi) (commonly asserted, not fully certain) ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | possibly means "big water" or "big lake" ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Miami
ⓘ
surface form:
Maimi
Mayaca (sometimes confused or conflated in sources) ⓘ Mayaimi ⓘ Maymi ⓘ |
| primarySubsistence |
fishing
ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ hunting ⓘ small-scale agriculture (attributed, uncertain) ⓘ |
| regionType |
lake shore environment
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| regionWithin |
Everglades-adjacent area
ⓘ
Florida Peninsula ⓘ |
| religion | indigenous animist beliefs (reconstructed, general) ⓘ |
| status | extinct as a distinct ethnic group ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.