The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina

369 Pages·2018·19.58 MB·English

by  Denise I Bossy

THE YAMASEE INDIANS

THE YAMASEE INDIANS
From Florida to South Carolina
Edited and with an introduction by denise i. bossy
Foreword by alan gallay
University of Nebraska Press
lincoln & london
© 2018 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Bossy, Denise I., editor, writer of introduction.
Title: The Yamasee Indians: from Florida to South Carolina /
edited and with an introduction by Denise I. Bossy; foreword
by Alan Gallay.
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2018006597
isbn 9781496207609 (cloth: alk. paper)
isbn 9781496212276 (epub)
isbn 9781496212283 (mobi)
isbn 9781496212290 (pdf)
Subjects: lcsh: Yamassee Indians— History.
Classification: lcc e99.y22 y36 2018 | ddc 975.7/01—d c23 lc
record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov/ 
Set in Adobe Caslon Pro by E. Cuddy.
Dedicated to Yamasee peoples, past, present, and future.

Contents
List of Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
List of Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Foreword, by Alan Gallay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Introduction: Recovering Yamasee History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
denise i. bossy
part 1. Yamasee Identity
1. Living at Liberty: The Ungovernable Yamasees of Spanish Florida . . . 27
amy turner bushnell
2. Yamasee Migrations into the Mocama and Timucua Mission
Provinces of Florida, 1667– 1683: An Archaeological Perspective . . . . . 55
keith ashley
3. Yamasee Material Culture and Identity: Altamaha/San Marcos
Ceramics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Yamasee Indian
Settlements, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
eric c. poplin and jon bernard marcoux
4. Cultural Continuity and Change: Archaeological Research at
Yamasee Primary Towns in South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
alexander y. sweeney
part 2. Yamasee Networks
5. Spiritual Diplomacy: Reinterpreting the Yamasee Prince’s
Eighteenth-C entury Voyage to England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
denise i. bossy
6. Yamasee- African Ties in Carolina and Florida . . . . . . . . . . . .163
jane landers
7. The Long Yamasee War: Reflections on Yamasee Conflict in the
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
steven c. hahn
part 3. Surviving the Yamasee War
8. The Persistence of Yamasee Power and Identity at the Town of
San Antonio de Pocotalaca, 1716–1 752 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
amanda hall
9. Refuge among the Spanish: Yamasee Community Coalescence in
St. Augustine after 1715. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251
andrea p. white
10. Chief Francisco Jospogue: Reconstructing the Paths of a
Guale- Yamasee Indian Lineage through Spanish Records. . . . . . . .281
susan richbourg parker
11. The Yamasee in West Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
john e. worth
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343
Illustrations
Figures
1. View of Yamasee house from Altamaha Town. . . . . . . . . . . . 106
2. Yamasee burial, Altamaha Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
3. The Euhaw Prince’s letter to the spg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
4. Well profile, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
5. Excavation of barrel well, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
6. Decorated ceramics, La Punta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
7. Mission red filmed bowl, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .272
8. Cacique Jospogue’s signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Maps
1. The colonial Southeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2. Yamasee sites, Amelia Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3. Yamasee regions along the St. Johns River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4. Location of the Upper and Lower Yamasee in South Carolina . . . .101
5. General location of Yamasee migrations from the 1660s to 1715 . . . .104
6. General location and sketch plan view of late Mississippian and
Yamasee houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
7. Lower Yamasee settlements, ca. 1732 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
8. Yamasee slaving into Florida as depicted by Thomas Nairne . . . . .122
9. Euhaw and Yamasee worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
10. Pocotalaca community, ca. 1737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
11. Map of the Duero site units, features, and structure. . . . . . . . . .241
12. La Punta refugee community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
13. La Punta excavations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
14. The Jospo home, St. Augustine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
15. The Yamasee in West Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311