Journeys With Florida's Indians

by Weitzel, Kelley G.

• ISBN13: 9780813025810
• ISBN10: 0813025818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

"A marvelous account of Florida's Indians for young readers."--Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History Journeys with Florida's Indians launches readers in grades 4 through 8 on an adventure into Florida's past. Young readers will meet the Paleoindians and learn about their arrival in the Americas, then join a boy on his first mammoth hunt as he escapes stampedes and the flames of a fire drive. Next, readers move forward in time to meet Spanish explorers, the Timucua, the Calusa, and the Apalachee Indiansfirst through fact, then through fiction. They'll attend the first meeting between French explorers and the Timucua and learn how Europeans impacted Florida's Indians. Alternating factual chapters are filled with maps, historical engravings, and modern illustrations. Fictional chapters are narrated by Tenerife, a fictional Timucua Indian kidnapped by the Spanish as a child, whose tales about Florida's native cultures reflect his own escape and adventures on his journey home. Weitzel's book fills several basic needs for Florida's young readers and educators. It is a valuable tool for school libraries serving students in state history classes at both upper elementary and middle school levels. It highlights native cultures in northeast, northwest, and south Florida, making it appropriate for public libraries, national parks, and bookstores throughout the state. Although there are multiple books on the Seminoles, this text is the only one for young readers on Florida's many historic and prehistoric cultures. Fiction and fact are combined in an engaging introduction with solid, up-to-date history--in effect, two books in a single economical package. Combining accessible archaeology and history, compelling fiction, and more than 50 illustrations, Journeys with Florida's Indians will appeal to all young Florida readers and the teachers and librarians who work with them. Kelley Weitzel is senior preserve naturalist at the Pelotes Island Nature Preserve. Her previous book The Timucua Indians A Native American Detective Story (UPF, 2000) received the Florida Historical Society's Charlton Tebeau Book Award for the best general interest/youth oriented book on Florida history.

Author Biography

Kelley Weitzel is senior preserve naturalist at the Pelotes Island Nature Preserve

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
Preface	xvii
Chronology	xviii
Introduction: How Is This Book Set Up?	1	(2)
The Chase	3	(4)
Florida's First People	7	(24)
Paleo-Indians	9	(4)
Archaic Indians	13	(3)
Tenerife's Tales	16	(5)
Fire Drive	21	(5)
Mammoth Hunt	26	(5)
Historic Native Peoples	31	(36)
Woodland Indians	33	(2)
Who Were They?	35	(5)
Living Near the Water	40	(3)
Foods and Tools	43	(4)
Homes and Villages	47	(3)
The Storm	50	(4)
The Plan	54	(7)
Springing the Trap	61	(6)
Timucua People	67	(30)
A Big Misunderstanding	69	(3)
Chiefs and Beliefs	72	(2)
Hunting on the Land	74	(3)
Drawings and Stories	77	(4)
Fighting for Ashefa	81	(5)
Deer Hunt	86	(4)
Capture	90	(7)
Calusa People	97	(32)
Calusa Power	99	(3)
Native Religions	102	(2)
Hunting in the Water	104	(3)
Learning from Archaeology	107	(2)
Healing Magic	109	(3)
Slavery	112	(6)
Shark Hunt	118	(6)
Escape	124	(5)
Apalachee People	129	(42)
Farmers and Governments	131	(2)
Games, Trade, and War	133	(2)
Women's Jobs	135	(2)
The Council House	137	(3)
Living Off the Land	140	(5)
The Challenge	145	(5)
Meeting the Chief	150	(5)
Earning a Way Home	155	(5)
Playing the Ball Game	160	(7)
Kateema's Baby	167	(4)
Europeans	171	(34)
Who Came to the New World?	173	(3)
Many Soldiers	176	(3)
A Changing Way of Life	179	(4)
An End and a Beginning	183	(4)
Strangers	187	(3)
Face to Face	190	(7)
Friends or Enemies?	197	(4)
New Treaties	201	(4)
Native American Places to Visit	205	(8)
Glossary	213	(8)
References: Other Books about Florida Indians	221	(4)
Index: Where Do I Find the Page About . . . ?	225