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Governor Ybarra claimed to be raising a native speaker for each of the five Florida lenguas in his h
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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The Jesuit plan for Florida was to establish a college in Havana for the sons of chiefs-"precious pledges," the Adelantado called them (Menendez de Aviles, 1568)-and thereby influence the Indians through their elites. After the Jesuit departure, the sons and daughters of chiefs were raised in the governor's house, arriving as hostages and developing into pages, companions ofrank, and interpreters. Governor Ybarra once claimed to be raising a native speaker for each of "the five lenguas" in his household (1606). As a natural result of this contact, marriage and concubinage were common between Spanish soldiers and officers and Indian women of the upper orders, some of whom were close relatives of caciques, and others, cacicas in their own right. (Bushnell SS)
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