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Florida
Indians and the
Invasion from Europe
by Jerald T.
Milanich
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When the conquistadors arrived in Florida in the early sixteenth
century, as many as 350,000 native Americans lived in the
territory. For more than twelve centuries their ancestors had
resided here, fishing, hunting, gathering wild plants, and
sometimes cultivating crops. Two and a half centuries later,
Florida's Indians were gone.
Focusing on those native peoples and their interactions with
Spanish and French explorers and colonists, Jerald Milanich
delineates this massive cultural change. Using information
gathered from archaeological excavations and from the
interpretation of historical documents left behind by the
colonial powers, he explains where the native groups came from,
where they lived, and what happened to them. He closes with the
tragic disappearance of the original inhabitants in the
eighteenth century and the first appearance of the ancestors of
Florida's present Native Americans.
With maps, photographs, drawings, and a vivid writing style,
Milanich creates a sense of history and place--an opportunity to
correlate modern towns to colonial events and sixteenth-century
trails to twentieth-century highways--that will illuminate
history for residents and tourists of Florida as well as for
archaeologists and historians.
Jerald T. Milanich is curator of archaeology in
the Department of Anthropology at the Florida Museum of Natural
History, Gainesville. He is the author or editor of twelve books
and monographs, including :
- Famous
Florida Sites (UPF,
1999)
- Florida's
Indians from Ancient Times to the Present (UPF,1998)
- Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of
Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period (with
Samuel Proctor, UPF, 1978, reprinted 1994),
- Archaeology
of Precolumbian Florida (UPF, 1994), and
- Hernando
de Soto and the Indians of Florida (with Charles Hudson, UPF, 1993), the last two
of which received the Rembert Patrick Award from the Florida
Historical Society.
1998. 304
pp. 6 X 9.
29
b&w photographs, 10 drawings, 35 maps, notes,
references, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1636-3 Paper, $19.95
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"... the most comprehensive account of the indigenous Indians of Florida that is to be found."--
Florida Historical Society
...an excellent overview and an essential beginning point for anyone interested in Florida's pre-Columbian and colonial peoples, their locations, and early interactions with Europeans, namely the Spanish.--
Journal of American History
"Jerald Milanich's book is an excellent overview of colonial Florida, and should be of interest to all students of the period. Based on the latest historical scholarship, as well as recent archaeological finds, Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe offers a rich understanding of the culture and people of Spanish Florida."
-- Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"An authoritative overview of the
development of Florida's aboriginal peoples . . . blended with
accounts of the European invasions and the dire consequences for
the natives of their contacts with the newcomers. . . .
Particularly valuable for its use of archaeological and
historical data."--John H. Hann, San Luis
Archaeological and Historic Site, Tallahassee
"An exciting book that brings together for all of Florida
the earliest historic records of indigenous peoples and Old World
invaders alike, combining archaeology and history to reconstruct
events and lifeways of ethnic groups so quickly devastated by the
European presence."--Nancy White, University of
South Florida
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