Apalachee
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Apalachee (apparently a Choctaw name, = "people on the other side") were a Southeastern culture of Native Americans of Muskhogean stock that lived in Florida. They have been known since the 16th century, and formerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. The Apalachee spoke a now-extinct Muskogean language, documented by letters written in the Spanish Colonial period.
The Appalachian Mountains were named after them.
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History
About 1600 the Spanish Franciscans founded a successful mission among them, but from 1702 to 1708, men from Carolina in North America traveled southwards to Florida and attacked the Apalachee and the Spanish missionaries who lived amongst them. Some of the Apalachee were killed, others fled, others were captured and sold into slavery or given to the Creek Indians who had assisted the men from Carolina. The Apalachee who were sold into slavery kept their tribal identity for some time but that effort eventually failed, the tribe being practically annihilated. The Spanish missionaries were slain, the churches burned, and their missions were laid to waste. The Catholicism that was being taught to the Apalachee disappeared from the area with the Indians.
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References
- Horwitz, Tony - "Apalachee Tribe, Missing for Centuries, Comes Out of Hiding", The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2005; Page A1
- Raeke, Richard - "The Apalachee Trail", St. Petersburg Times; July 20, 2003
- Handbook of American Indians, ed. F. W. Hodge (Washington, 1907).
- This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
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Categories: 1911 Britannica | Native American tribes | Florida | Muskogean languages | Extinct languages | Indigenous languages of the North American Southeast
