Yamasee
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The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees, Yemasees or Yemassees) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida. The Yamasees engaged in revolts and wars with other Native groups and Europeans living in North America, specifically from Florida to North Carolina.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Yamasee
- Ethnic group.population
- Extinct as tribe
- Ethnic group.regions
- United States (Georgia, northern Florida, and South Carolina)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Yamasee tribal religion
- Ethnic group.languages
- Yamasee language (extinct)
- Ethnic group.related
- La Tama, Guale, Seminole, Hitchiti, and other Muskogean tribes
- Language.name
- Yamasee
- Language.region
- Georgia
- Language.extinct
- 18th century
- Language.family
- unclassified; perhaps Guale or Muskogean
- Language.familycolor
- American
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- yama1265
- Language.glottorefname
- Yamasee
- Language.map
- USA Südosten-Yamasee.png
- Language.mapalt
- Tribal territory of the Yamasees during the seventeenth century
- Language.mapcaption
- Tribal territory of the Yamasees during the seventeenth century
- Language.states
- United States
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- Instance of
- ethnic group
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- Yamasee
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Overview
- European colonization
- Spanish contact
- English contact
- Yamasee War and aftermath
- Culture
- Slavery
- Diplomacy
- Archaeological research
- Language
- Legacy
- Modern descendants
- Unrecognized organizations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees, Yemasees or Yemassees) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida. The Yamasees engaged in revolts and wars with other Native groups and Europeans living in North America, specifically from Florida to North Carolina.
The Yamasees, along with the Guale, are considered from linguistic evidence by many scholars to have been a Muskogean language people. For instance, the Yamasee term "Mico", meaning chief, is also common in Muskogee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yamasee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.