This is the story of the Timucua, an American Indian people who
thrived for centuries in the southeast portion of what is now the
United States of America.
Timucua groups lived in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia, a
region occupied by native people for thirteen millennia. They were
among the first of the American Indians to come in contact with
Europeans, when the Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the
Florida coast in 1513. Thousands of archaeological sites, village
middens and sand and shell mounds still dot the landscape, offering
mute testimony to the former presence of the Timucua and their
ancestors.
Two hundred and fifty years after Ponce de Leon's voyage the
Timucua had disappeared, extinguished by the ravages of
colonialism. Who were the Timucua? Where did they come from? How
did they live? What caused their extinction? These are questions
this book attempts to answer, using information gathered from
archaeological excavations and from the interpretation of
historical documents left behind by the European powers, mainly
Spain and France, who sought to colonize Florida and to place the
Timucua under their sway.
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