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Aggregated Guale towns had internal disputes

Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast #129

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During the winter of 1677-78, Captain Antonio de Arguelles made a formal visitation of Guale and Mocama...

Furthermore, the Indians in the town of Santa Catalina were said to be "passing from one council house to another with slight cause,"
again in violation of earlier mandates for good government (Arguelles, 1678). Though ambiguous, this passage might refer to the council
houses of the two distinct towns aggregated in Santa Catalina (Santa Catalina and Satuache), suggesting an attempt to maintain the separate identities of the two towns in the context of aggregation.

The other dual town in the Guale province, San Joseph de Sapala, was also involved in internal disputes as to the relationship between the two aggregated towns of Sapala and Tupiqui. During the visitation, the mica(27) of Tupiqui, Ana Estasia, complained that although the caciques of Sapala were her vassals, they refused to pay her tribute (in the form of a field of corn), and when asked, Sapala's cacique Phelipe refused to do so unless ordered to by the Spaniards. Although the determination was left to the judgement of all of the caciques of the province, the political dispute in Sapala, along with the problems noted above, reveal that Guale's transformation during this period was not without its stresses.

Note 27. Female aboriginal leaders in Guale were designated as mica or cacica (instead of mico or cacique).