Tequesta Tribes
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Tequesta Tribes |
| Ethnie: | TEQUESTA TRIBES |
| Language; | Calusa Taino |
| Family: | Northern Maipuran |
| Stock: | Maipuran |
| Phylum: | Arawakan |
| Macro-Culture: | Florida |
| Speakers | Extinct |
| The Tequesta tribes were several small sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer villages. They became extinct early due to disease and the depredations of early settlers including violence and slavery. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| FL: Tequesta, Jeaga, Ais |
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| Year | History |
| 1513 | Visited by Ponce de Leon |
| 1565 | A ship from the fleet of Pedro Menendez de Avilez took refuge from a storm in Biscayne Bay where the main village of the Tequesta was, took the chief's nephew and brother with them back to Cuba and Spain respectively |
| 1567 | Menedez established mission among Tequesta |
| 1570 | Mission abandoned |
| 1704 | Spain's policy to resettle Indians in Cuba to Christianize them, most soon died |
| 1763 | Spain surrendered Florida to Britain, few remaining Tequesta removed to Cuba |
| Year | Total FL Population | Source | |
| 1500 | 1,000 | Florida Cebter for Instructional Technology | |
| 1700 | 100 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Calusa |
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