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Indepedent Florida Indian settlements on the east coast
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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As stated above, the settlements on the east coast did not belong to a single province, although there is reason to consider them as having constituted one linguistic group with the Calusa.1 The following settlements are mentioned, beginning at the southern end of this strip of coast: Tekesta, Teqesta, Tequesta. Situated close to the present Miami. Tavuacio. Janab. As the writer who gives this is the same who records a town Janar among the Calusa we may assume that they are not identical. Cabista. custeqiyo. Jeaoa, Geaqa, Jega, Gega, Guega. This was located in the present Jupiter Inlet. According to Spanish writers it was 10 leagues north of Tekesta and 18 leagues south-southeast of Ais. Guacata, Cuacata. In one place Fontaneda speaks of this as a town on Lake Mayaimi (Okeechobee 1 and elsewhere as one of the provinces of the east coast. A Spanish document in the Lowery collection gives it as a place "in the land of Ays." It is possible that these people lived on St. Lucie River and camped farther inland than most of the coast people. In that case they would probably be identical with the people of the town afterwards known as Santa Lucia from a missionary establishment started among them. Tunsa. Given as a town or province "in the land of Ays." But see Tunsa in the Timucua list. Ais, Ays, Aiz, Hayz, Jece. The chief of this town or province was the most powerful on the eastern coast. From Dickenson it appears that he was able to overawe all of the chiefs to the south of him as far as the Jeaga, and the "province of Ais" is made by the Spaniards to extend in the other direction nearly to Cape Canaveral. The capital town itself was near Indian River Inlet, and Indian River itself was known as "the river of Ais." This is sometimes called San Agustin de Ais from an abortive missionary attempt made there. Ulumay (given in one place as Colomas). This is spoken of as a "province" and at the same time placed in the territory of Ais. It was near Cape Canaveral and on the borders of the south Florida linguistic area or areas. Fontaneda makes the language of Ais extend as far as Maiaca and Maiajuaca, but the first of these was Timucua, and there is reason to think that the Timucua tribes extended even farther south. See Surruque in the Timucua list. Obdonoy. A town in the province of Ulumay. Bovoche. A town in the province of Ulumay. Rea. A land or town of the province of Ais. (See p. 342.) It is doubtful whether this word has been correctly copied. (Swanton)
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