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Yamasee. The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees, [5] [6] Yemasees or Yemassees [7]) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans [4] who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida. The Yamasees engaged in revolts [8] and wars with other native groups and ...
The Yamasee War (also spelled Yamassee [1] or Yemassee) was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715 to 1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee, who were supported by a number of allied Native American peoples, including the Muscogee, Cherokee, Catawba, Apalachee, Apalachicola, Yuchi, Savannah River Shawnee, Congaree, Waxhaw, Pee Dee, Cape Fear, Cheraw ...
Yemassee, South Carolina. / 32.700°N 80.850°W / 32.700; -80.850. Yemassee ( / ˈjɛməsiː /) is a small Lowcountry town in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census. [ 5] Yemassee is near the borders of Colleton and Jasper counties. The town is divided by the county ...
Mississippian culture; possibly ancestors of Muskogean peoples; Creek. Guale was a historic Native American chiefdom of Mississippian culture peoples located along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands. Spanish Florida established its Roman Catholic missionary system in the chiefdom in the late 16th century.
The Yamassee and their allies killed most of the English slave traders, the colonial governments took steps to regulate the colony's trading relationships with Indian tribes, and many Indian tribes, such as the Yamassee, continued to be anti-British after the war and established better relations with the Spanish and French.
The Yamasee were forced to relocate due to losing a quarter of their forces while South Carolina worked to rebuild diplomatic relations with local Native tribes. Following a series of peace treaties between South Carolina and the Creek between 1716-1717, decades of conflict continued between the Cherokee and Creek with raids and attacks until ...
These were all allies of Colonels Barnwell and Moore during the Tuscarora War. This attack began what is known as the Yamasee War. [12] [page needed] The Yamasee and other tribes in South Carolina learned from the Tuscarora War that colonial settlers were heavily invested in the slave trade of Native Americans. Furthermore, the Tuscarora War ...
Catawba, [ 1] Keyauwee, Santee, [ 2] Wateree [ 2] The Congaree were a historic Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands who once lived within what is now central South Carolina, along the Congaree River. The Congaree joined the Catawba people in company of the Wateree several years after temporarily migrating to the Waccamaw River in 1732.