Timucua

Apalachee

Tequesta

Calusa

Tocobaga

NATIVE

TRIBES

OF

FLORIDA

Location – Southwest Florida

Diet – Seafood and plants ,chili peppers, papayas, and squash

Customs – Three super natural persons ruled ,people had three souls and that souls migrated to animals after their death.

Clothing – leather skins, and loin cloths

Tools – weirs, spears made from stones, hooks made from bones, and wood for staffs.

Housing – huts made out of palm fronds , logs , grass fibers , and wood

Present tribe – Sadly they all died out in the 1700’s

Interesting facts –crafts were important to the Calusa culture. They were the most powerful tribe in Florida , and they got most of their wealth by trading and tribute.

Language –They spoke a dialect of Calusa.

LocationThe Tequestas lived in southeastern

Florida. They lived in the present day Miami.

Diet

The Tequestas fished, hunted and

gathered. They ate fruits and roots of

local plants.

CustomsWhen the Tequestas buried their chief’s dead bodies, they put the smaller bones with the body. Europeans began arriving during the 1500’s. They first did not like these Europeans but soon gained there trust.

ClothingThe Tequestas used dried palm fronds for the woman’s skirts and deerskin for everyone’s cover-up's.

Tools

The Tequestas used shark’s

teeth and shells for everyday

use. They used these tools as

hammers, chisels, fishhooks.

Shark’s teeth were used to

carve out logs to make canoes.

Housing The Tequestas used dried palm fronds, twigs, vines and logs to build their huts. Shell middens located around the bay and along the Miami river to show where they once lived.

Interesting FactsThe Tequestas never gained as much wealth as The Calusas “ Their neighbors to the west.” They also never were as strong as the Calusas.

Language

The Tequestas language

may be closely related to

the Calusas language.

There are only ten words

from the language of

those tribes for which

meanings were

recorded.

Location: The Tocobaga’s lived at the

Northern end of Tampa Bay next to

the water.

Diet: They would usually eat fish and shell

fish as the primary type of food, they also at

manatees, and fruit

Customs: They had five social classes: chiefs, headman, warriors, ordinary people, and slaves. They kept the bodies of their dead in their temples until the bones had been cleaned.

Clothing: The Tocobagas wore deerskin clothing. It helped them to get closer to

animals and kill them. They sometimes even wore deer heads.

Tools: they used a tool for digging called an adz. They also used an atlatl. It was

like a spear they used for hunting. Housing: The Tocobagas houses were made with

wooden poles holding up the palm thatches

and wood for the walls.

Interesting Facts: the Tocobagas built mounds which is a large pile of earth, shells, or stones. The chiefs home and tribe temples were each built on a mound. The Tocobagas also built burial mounds outside the main village area for a place to bury the dead.

Location

Northwest Florida near present day

Tallahassee

Diet

Corn, beans, squash, fish, shellfish,

plants, nuts, meat, wild berries and

flour

CustomsGames like Apalachee ball, garitas (a building to store food) built on top of poles

Clothing

The men wore deer

skin loincloths and the

women wore Spanish

moss

ToolsThe Apalachees used stone, bones and shells to make make weapons like spears , bows and arrows .

Housing

They lived by lakes.

There were 50 to 100

houses per village .

There houses are

made of palm fronds

and wood.

Present tribeToday 300 Apalachee members are alive that we know of. We know that they now live in Louisiana.

Interesting facts•They sometimes called their crops “The Three Sisters” The Three Sisters were corn, beans and squash. •The first group of explorers came in 1528. •The ball in Apalachee ball is made of clay and buckskin.

LanguageHitchiof the Muskhogean language.

LocationThe Timucuas are located in Northeast

Florida.

DietsCorn, beans,

squash, various vegetables, Alligators ,

manatees, and even whales.

Clothing

The Timucua were heavily

tattooed and most of the tattoos

were earned by good deeds. Kids

started to get them when they

started getting responsibilities.

The men wore there hair in buns

high above their heads. .

Tools

Spears ,clubs,

bows, and arrows

and blow guns .

Present TribeThe Timucaus are now an extinct tribe.

CustomsThey had ceremonies to worship their chiefs , they believed in different gods than we do, like the moon god or the sun god ,and even the animal god. They also had festivals for the harvesting season once it was over or while it was happening,

HousingThe Timucaus lived in villages where

there were usually two kinds of

houses. One type of home was a long

house . The other was a circular hut.

They both were made from palm

fronds and wood.

LanguageThe Timucaus spoke different dialects of the Timucua language. Different groups did not speak the same dialect.

Interesting FactsThe Timucaus buried their chiefs when they died in a mound. The Timucaus preserved meat by smoking it over a fire.