Elizabeth Weiss Vollstadt
Who wanted the land of Florida? There were the NATIVE AMERICANS, or the indigenous people, of the land of Florida. There were the BRITISH, that wanted control. The SPANISH currently had control and wanted to maintain it. Then the US decided they wanted to have it as well. The French and...
Rich, complex societies existed in America long before European settlers arrived. These articles explore the cultures of Native communities, the genocide and oppression they have endured, and their continuing efforts to bring about social and environment
In the mid to late 1700s, Native Americans from Georgia, Alabama and other states, including tribes of the Creek Nation such as the Miccosukee, migrated to Florida to escape European expansion. They were joined by escaped enslaved people, as Spain had announced that anyone who made it to Flo...
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Marco Rubio became the first Cuban American to serve as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives in 2005. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made his mark in politics as a leading member of the Republican party. A Miami native, the 53-year-old was born in 1971 to Cuban immigrants ...
Native American - Tribes, Culture, History: The thoughts and perspectives of Indigenous individuals, especially those who lived during the 15th through 19th centuries, have survived in written form less often than is optimal for the historian. Because su
Of course, the exact makeup of the Native American diet depended to a large extent on the indigenous plants and animals in the area where they lived. For instance, saw palmetto berries were a unique common food of the Florida tribes, desert tribes used the fruit and leaves of the prickly...
Battles fought between indigenous Native Americans and the Spanish and English settlers in Florida were fueled to no small degree by the various cattle rustlers on both sides who sought to control the large, wild herds of the interior and the land they grazed on. Ahaya, “the Cowkeeper” and...
Viewed from thispoint, American civilization is still in the stage of racial mixture. Between1700 and 1848 white Americans north of Florida were mainly Anglo-Saxon, andtheir literature was a flowering of old England on ...