Beginning early in 1566, Florida’s founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés embarked on a far-reaching strategy to bring the native peoples of South Florida into his new colony. With the colony’s hub at St. Augustine (in the territory of the agricultural Timucuan people of northern Florida), and its pr
Indians from the Mosquito River [Mosquito Inlet] at the beginning of the Bahama Channel down to the Martyrs
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En Bas Saline is the site of a very large classic Taíno town occupied between about AD 1200 and AD 1530. It is thought to have been the principal town of the cacique Guacanagarí, which is where Columbus established his tiny settlement of La Navidad in 1492, after the wreck of the Santa María.
Martyr D’Anghiera, Peter 1970 De Orbe Novo (2 Vols.).
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/caribarch/education/tc-peoples/
Long before Columbus, the islands of the Caribbean were home to Native American peoples. Over thousands of years, these island inhabitants built rich and diverse cultures, with their own technology, diet, history, religion, and art. Sadly, these people all but disappeared in less than a generation a
Peter Martyr reported that 40,000 Lucayans were brought to Hispaniola.
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