FDI - Mococo

The Mococo were a sedentary coastal tribe. They lived about the head of Tampa Bay on Florida's west coast. They received the first White explorers peacefully. They ultimately united early with another Timucuan tribe, and followed the sad fortunes of the Timucuans in general.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

FL (1)

Year	*History*
15XX	Gave asylum to Spaniard Juan Ortiz who came to Florida with Narvaez expedition
1539	Chief befriended De Soto, served as De Soto's interpreter; tribe may have united with Utina

Year	Total FL Population	Source
1500	200	NAHDB aboriginal estimate
1700		NAHDB calculation
1800		NAHDB calculation
1900		NAHDB calculation
2000		NAHDB calculation

Mococo Sites:

500 Year of Baker County http://rootsweb.com/~flbaker/500yr.html

Brief History of the Timucua Taino of Northern Florida http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/265.html

DeSoto's Florida Trails http://www.floridahistory.com/inset5.html

Linguists Research Timucua, a Language with No Speakers http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=5291

Story of a Florida Pocahontas http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/docs/f/flpoca.htm

Taino Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90537

Taino Timucua Tribe http://www.hartford-hwp.com/Timucua/

Timucua http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timucua

Timucua http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/t/ti/timucua.htm

Timucua Indian Coloring Pages http://pelotes.jea.com/incolor3.htm

Timucua Indians http://www.nps.gov/timu/indepth/foca/foca_timucua.htm

Timucua Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14733a.htm

Timucua Indians - After the Europeans Came http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1109.html

Timucua Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/timucua/timucuaindianhist.htm

Timucua Language http://www.native-languages.org/timucua.htm

*Ethnie:*	MOCOCO
*Language;*	Timucua Taino
*Family:*	Northern Maipuran
*Stock:*	Maipuran
*Phylum:*	Arawakan
*Macro-Culture:*	Florida
Speakers	Extinct