native floridians
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Timucua
Apalachee
Tequesta
Calusa
Tocobaga
NATIVE
TRIBES
OF
FLORIDA
Location – Southwest Florida
Diet – Seafood and plants ,chili peppers, papayas, and squash
Customs – Three super natural persons ruled ,people had three souls and that souls migrated to animals after their death.
Clothing – leather skins, and loin cloths
Tools – weirs, spears made from stones, hooks made from bones, and wood for staffs.
Housing – huts made out of palm fronds , logs , grass fibers , and wood
Present tribe – Sadly they all died out in the 1700’s
Interesting facts –crafts were important to the Calusa culture. They were the most powerful tribe in Florida , and they got most of their wealth by trading and tribute.
Language –They spoke a dialect of Calusa.
LocationThe Tequestas lived in southeastern
Florida. They lived in the present day Miami.
Diet
The Tequestas fished, hunted and
gathered. They ate fruits and roots of
local plants.
CustomsWhen the Tequestas buried their chief’s dead bodies, they put the smaller bones with the body. Europeans began arriving during the 1500’s. They first did not like these Europeans but soon gained there trust.
ClothingThe Tequestas used dried palm fronds for the woman’s skirts and deerskin for everyone’s cover-up's.
Tools
The Tequestas used shark’s
teeth and shells for everyday
use. They used these tools as
hammers, chisels, fishhooks.
Shark’s teeth were used to
carve out logs to make canoes.
Housing The Tequestas used dried palm fronds, twigs, vines and logs to build their huts. Shell middens located around the bay and along the Miami river to show where they once lived.
Interesting FactsThe Tequestas never gained as much wealth as The Calusas “ Their neighbors to the west.” They also never were as strong as the Calusas.
Language
The Tequestas language
may be closely related to
the Calusas language.
There are only ten words
from the language of
those tribes for which
meanings were
recorded.
Location: The Tocobaga’s lived at the
Northern end of Tampa Bay next to
the water.
Diet: They would usually eat fish and shell
fish as the primary type of food, they also at
manatees, and fruit
Customs: They had five social classes: chiefs, headman, warriors, ordinary people, and slaves. They kept the bodies of their dead in their temples until the bones had been cleaned.
Clothing: The Tocobagas wore deerskin clothing. It helped them to get closer to
animals and kill them. They sometimes even wore deer heads.
Tools: they used a tool for digging called an adz. They also used an atlatl. It was
like a spear they used for hunting. Housing: The Tocobagas houses were made with
wooden poles holding up the palm thatches
and wood for the walls.
Interesting Facts: the Tocobagas built mounds which is a large pile of earth, shells, or stones. The chiefs home and tribe temples were each built on a mound. The Tocobagas also built burial mounds outside the main village area for a place to bury the dead.
Location
Northwest Florida near present day
Tallahassee
Diet
Corn, beans, squash, fish, shellfish,
plants, nuts, meat, wild berries and
flour
CustomsGames like Apalachee ball, garitas (a building to store food) built on top of poles
Clothing
The men wore deer
skin loincloths and the
women wore Spanish
moss
ToolsThe Apalachees used stone, bones and shells to make make weapons like spears , bows and arrows .
Housing
They lived by lakes.
There were 50 to 100
houses per village .
There houses are
made of palm fronds
and wood.
Present tribeToday 300 Apalachee members are alive that we know of. We know that they now live in Louisiana.
Interesting facts•They sometimes called their crops “The Three Sisters” The Three Sisters were corn, beans and squash. •The first group of explorers came in 1528. •The ball in Apalachee ball is made of clay and buckskin.
LanguageHitchiof the Muskhogean language.
LocationThe Timucuas are located in Northeast
Florida.
DietsCorn, beans,
squash, various vegetables, Alligators ,
manatees, and even whales.
Clothing
The Timucua were heavily
tattooed and most of the tattoos
were earned by good deeds. Kids
started to get them when they
started getting responsibilities.
The men wore there hair in buns
high above their heads. .
Tools
Spears ,clubs,
bows, and arrows
and blow guns .
Present TribeThe Timucaus are now an extinct tribe.
CustomsThey had ceremonies to worship their chiefs , they believed in different gods than we do, like the moon god or the sun god ,and even the animal god. They also had festivals for the harvesting season once it was over or while it was happening,
HousingThe Timucaus lived in villages where
there were usually two kinds of
houses. One type of home was a long
house . The other was a circular hut.
They both were made from palm
fronds and wood.
LanguageThe Timucaus spoke different dialects of the Timucua language. Different groups did not speak the same dialect.
Interesting FactsThe Timucaus buried their chiefs when they died in a mound. The Timucaus preserved meat by smoking it over a fire.