Tequesta
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thumb|A bronze statue of a Tequesta warrior and his family on the Brickell Avenue Bridge, Miami, created by [[Manuel Carbonell.]] The Tequesta, also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos, were a Native American tribe on the Southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. They had infrequent contact with Europeans and had largely migrated by the middle of the 18th century.
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- Tequesta
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- Approximate territory of the Tequesta in the 16th century in present-day South Florida
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- Present-day South Florida(from 3rd century BCE to mid-18th century)
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- Tequesta
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- Florida
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- 18th century
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- unclassified (Calusa?)
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- American
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- United States
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- Post-European-contact
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thumb|A bronze statue of a Tequesta warrior and his family on the Brickell Avenue Bridge, Miami, created by [[Manuel Carbonell.]] The Tequesta, also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos, were a Native American tribe on the Southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. They had infrequent contact with Europeans and had largely migrated by the middle of the 18th century.
==Location and extent== The Tequesta lived in the southeastern parts of present-day Florida. They lived in the region since the 3rd century BC in the late Archaic period of the continent, and remained for roughly 2,000 years, By the 1800s, most had died as a result of settlement battles, slavery, and disease. The Tequesta tribe had only a few survivors by the time that Spanish Florida was traded to the British, who then established the area as part of the province of East Florida.
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