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History of the Timucua Indians and missions, AEntry/Object ID
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xvi, 399 p. : maps. ; 24 cm
History of the Timucua Indians and missions by John Hann.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-370) and index.
Donor label reads: In memory of Edna P. Kirkland, mother of Imogene Cooper, Archivist, JHS donated by JHS.
Author is the premier historian of Native American groups that lived in Florida during period of European colonization. This work - a solid, ground-breaking, in-depth study of the Timucua - is as scholarly and illuminating as his previous works -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
When Spanish and French explorers first landed in Florida early in the 16th century, Timucua speakers occupied more land area and were more numerous than any other aboriginal group. This is their first detailed history, a major study that places its author in the forefront of Spanish colonial historians working in the United States. The Timucua are the only native people of Florida whose language survives in literature in sufficient quality and quantity to permit significant study. Relying on previously unused documents, this account of the Timucua traces their experience from first contact with Europeans to their exile to Cuba in 1763 and their final eradication. Beginning with the question of their number and their locations in northern Florida and southern Georgia, John Hann examines the Timucua's contacts with various European groups, starting with Ponce de Leon's expedition. He includes a detailed presentation of their experience under the mission regimes and covers such topics as the Europeans' descriptions of the people, their language, culture, and political structures, the derivation of their language, and the meanings of their place-names and titles. He also resolves confusion over the extent of the territory of a Timucua subgroup known as the Mocama and discusses other Florida native peoples who moved into Timucua territory as refugees during the first half of the 18th century."--Book Jacket.
Contents: : Timucua and Their Land -- Timucua People at Contact -- First Contacts with Europeans -- Timucua and Menendez de Aviles -- Timucua Political Organization -- Timucua's Material World -- Timucua Traditions and Customs -- Timucua Language -- Beginnings of Missionization -- Advance of Missionization, 1609-1655 -- Timucua Revolt of 1656 -- Timucua Missions, 1657-1678 -- Timucua Demography -- Extinction of the Timucua Missions, 1680-1704 -- Timucua's Last Years in Florida -- Timucua Acculturation.Collection
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Timucua Indians., Timucua Indians -- Missions -- History., Kirkland, Edna P, 1907-1996., Indians of North America -- Florida.Publication Details
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Hann, John H., Milanich, Jerald T.Publisher
University Press of FloridaPlace Published
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Gainesville, FLCall No.
E 99 .T55 H36 1996ISBN
0813014247LCCN
95032615