Based on the latest research findings, this is the moving story of the demise of one of the oldest of the American Indian peoples.

Jerald T. Milanich is Curator in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida.

List of Figures	p. x
List of Tables	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
The Beginning	p. 1
Paleoindians	p. 2
Archaic Period Cultures	p. 5
East Florida	p. 9
St Johns I Culture, 500 BC to AD 750	p. 12
St Johns II Culture, AD 750-1565	p. 15
Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida	p. 21
North Peninsular Florida and Southern Georgia	p. 25
Alachua Culture, AD 600-1539	p. 29
Suwannee Valley Culture, AD 750-1539	p. 34
Who Were the Timucua?	p. 38
Dialect Distributions	p. 41
Timucuan Groups	p. 44
What to Call Them	p. 45
Groups in East Florida and Southeast Georgia	p. 47
Groups in Northern Peninsular Florida and Southern Georgia	p. 53
Appearance and Number of the People	p. 56
Native Neighbors of the Timucua	p. 61
Linguistic Relationships of the Timucua Language	p. 63
The Invasion	p. 67
Voyages to the Southeast United States	p. 68
The Expeditions of Panfilo de Narvaez and Hernando de Soto	p. 72
Fort Caroline and the French	p. 82
Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Conquest of Florida	p. 88
Spanish Missions	p. 93
Early Missions	p. 95
Growth of the Timucuan Missions	p. 99
Early Mission Period Population Movements	p. 104
The Western Timucuan Rebellion and Mission Reorganization	p. 107
Haciendas	p. 113
Agents of Change	p. 116
Mission Settlements and Subsistence	p. 119
The Missions	p. 119
Interring the Dead	p. 125
Native Villages	p. 130
Native Buildings	p. 132
Making a Living	p. 137
Trade	p. 147
The Organization of Societies	p. 150
The Sixteenth Century and Before	p. 150
Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy	p. 163
Effects of Seventeenth-Century Colonization	p. 166
Beliefs and Behavior	p. 171
Traditions in an Old World	p. 173
Living "Under the Bell"	p. 185
Serving New Masters	p. 190
The End	p. 196
The Beginning of the End	p. 196
Epidemics during the Mission Period	p. 200
The Destruction of the Missions, 1680-1707	p. 204
A People No More	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 227
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