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	Yamasee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamasee were a Muskogean Native American tribe that lived in coastal region of present-day northern Florida and southern Georgia near the Savannah River.
		The Yamasee near the Savannah River became allies of the new colony of South Carolina, while those in Florida grew increasingly disenchanted with the Spanish.
		The British settlers were aided by Cherokee, the Creek, and colonists from Virginia, and defeated the Yamasee at Saltketchers on the Combahee River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamasee_War (711 words)

	South Carolina - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Charleston harbor was blockaded almost for the duration of the war, and the city was finally occupied by Union forces in February 1865 after a 19-month siege.
		After the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson’s plan for restoring the Union, or Reconstruction, was to reestablish the state governments and then readmit the states’ delegates to Congress.
		During World War II (1939-1945) and in the postwar decades, the pace of economic change was greatly accelerated in South Carolina.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761571763___88/South_Carolina.html (4963 words)

	Yamasee - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		YAMASEE [Yamasee] Yamasi, or Yemasee, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
		In the late 16th cent., when Spanish missions were established among them, the Yamasee lived in S Georgia and N Florida.
		The Yamasee were initially friendly toward the English, but in 1715 war broke out and they massacred more than 200 white settlers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-yamasee.html (327 words)

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		Later there were two wars with the Whites; the first from 1817-18 in which Andrew Jackson lead the American forces; and the second, from 1835 to 1842, a long and bitter contest in which the Indinns demonstrated to its fullest capacity the possibilities of guerrilla warfare in a semitropical, swampy country.
		History.- The first reference to the Yamasee appears to be a mention of their name in the form Yamiscaron as that of a province with which Francisco of Chicora was acquainted in 1521.
		Their presence is indicated down to the end of the war in the Peninsula, when they appear to have gone west, probably reuniting with the remainder of the tribe.
	americanindian.net /StatesFGI.html (18261 words)

	Swtext georgia1d (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1715 just before the outbreak of the Yamasee War, there were said to be 2 settlements of this tribe with 64 warriors and a total population of 214.
		The first reference to the Yamasee appears to be a mention of their name in the form Yamiscaron as that of a province with which Francisco of Chicora was acquainted in 1521.
		The Yamasee are famous particularly on account of the Yamasee War, which marked an epoch in Indian and White history in the Southeast.
	www.hiddenhistory.com /page3/swsts/georgia1.htm (6119 words)

	Indian Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wars, which ranged from colonial times to the Wounded Knee massacre and "closing" of the American frontier in 1890, generally resulted in the conquest of American Indians and their assimilation or forced relocation to Indian reservations.
		2.4 Tecumseh, the Creek War, and the War of 1812
		These are wars fought by Native Americans in the United States with colonizing powers in the future territory of the United States before the Declaration of Independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Wars (3736 words)

	Colonia-Indian Wars - American Wars - TimeLines of Liberty - www.PoetPatriot.com
		The Pequot War was in 1637 in the areas of Connecticut and Rhode Island although centered along the Thames River.
		The Tuscarora War is fought from 1711 to 1713 between the Settlers and the Tuscarora under Chief Hancock.
		The French and Indian War and the Seven Year's War in Europe were officially ended by the fall signing of the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
	www.poetpatriot.com /tmwar-indian1st.htm (2570 words)

	TNGenNet Inc. Colonial Period Indian Land Cessions in the American Southeast, Indian Land Cessions Maps and Treaties in ...
		War, pestilence, whisky and systematic slave hunts had nearly exterminated the aboriginal occupants of the Carolinas before anybody thought them of sufficient importance to ask who they were, how they lived, or what were their beliefs and opinions.
		The Yamasee was a tribe of Muskhogean stock, residing formerly near the Savannah River and in Florida.
		The Yamasee had also complained of the traders enslaving their women and children, however, the Carolina authorities were helpless in remedying the ever worsening situation.
	www.tngenweb.org /cessions/colonial.html (5713 words)

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		It's really more a European war -- The War of the League of Augsburg -- in which France declared war on England in reaction to the Glorious Revolution.
		Conflict lasted for about a year, with the Yamasee facing off against the British (who were aided by the Cherokee, the Creek and Virginian colonists).
		Prior to this, the Albany Congress had met to try and devise a way to get the Iroquois (who were famous for using their neutrality in conflicts as a diplomatic weapon) to join colonists, and to coordinate colonial defenses.
	zeteticism.livejournal.com /20615.html?mode=reply (1949 words)

	USMHWeb18
		The Yamasee became more and more alienated from the white men as their families were taken captive and sold into slavery to pay for debts incurred from rum handouts.
		It is believed that the Yamasee War was instigated by the Spanish.
		A brief war between England and Spain, that lasted from February, 1727 to March, 1728, provided a motive for a unit of South Carolina militia to march southward into Florida to destroy a Yamasee village near St. Augustine on 09 March, 1728.
	www.motherbedford.com /USMHWeb18.htm (306 words)

	Tribes of South Carolina
		In 1711-13 they assisted the Whites in their wars with the Tuscarora, and though they participated in the Yamasee uprising in 1715 peace was quickly made and the Catawba remained faithful friends of the colonists ever after.
		Just before the Yamasee War, they were still living in their old country in a single village, but it is probable that the war put an end to them as a distinct tribe.
		The Yamasee War reduced their power considerably, and toward the middle of the eighteenth century they went to live with the Catawba, with whom the survivors must ultimately have fused.
	www.whitemoonraven.com /maps/scarolina.html (5169 words)

	The Yamasee War
		In the spring of 1715, the Yamasee formed a confederation with other tribes and struck at the white settlements in South Carolina.
		The tide turned against the Yamasee, who were slowly pushed south through Georgia back into their ancestral lands in northern Florida.
		The War of 1812 Website This "1812 experience" is comprised of numerous articles, quality book reviews and offers, extensive links, and the largest collection of War of 1812 images on the internet.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1169.html (619 words)

	A Chronology of Conflict--Family Tree Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		England declares war on Spain and both countries attempt to expand their interests in Colonial America.
		Seminole chief Osceola refuses to honor treaties agreeing to the movement of the tribe to the west and launches a general war.
		America declares war on Spain and launches offensives in Cuba and the Philippines.
	www.familytreemagazine.com /articles/apr02/wartimeline.html (1355 words)

	Catawba
		Catawba warriors had a fearsome reputation and an appearance to match: ponytail hairstyle with a distinctive war paint pattern of one eye in a fl circle, the other in a white circle and remainder of the face painted fl.
		It was a common practice in South Carolina to force new slaves to pass in front of a Catawba warrior in war paint to discourage escape attempts.
		Seneca war parties, sometimes accompanied by Delaware allies, followed the "Warriors Path" from western New York traveling down the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and then into the foothills of the Appalachians to South Carolina.
	www.clayhound.us /sites/CatawbaHistory.htm (2289 words)

	son_of_kingdavid THE BIRTH of a NATION
		The term "Indian war" was quite often simply a rhetorical exercise to cover not only the seizure of Native American land and crops, but also the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
		Though history may record these encounters as "Indian wars," these "wars" were simply Native American responses to the slaving operations of the English and their Shawnee allies.
		The English had begun to seize Yamasee women and children for the slave market in payment of debts that the Indians had assumed in their relationship with the English.
	www.geocities.com /son_of_kingdavid/the-birth-of-a-nation.html (1286 words)

	Amazon.com: "Yamasee War": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In this way, the Yamasee War of 1715 becomes the watershed event of the South's "racial" history as it defines the place of racially cast peoples:...
		This war demonstrated the utility of a united fl and native military force as Spanish allies.
		The Yamasee War of 1715, however, appears to have been different and perhaps unique in character.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Yamasee-War (612 words)

	William L. Ramsey \| "Something Cloudy in Their Looks": The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered \| The Journal of ...
		The war spurred extensive tribal migrations and alliance realignments that changed the diplomatic and cultural landscape of the region for the remainder of the eighteenth century, and it led directly to the collapse of South Carolina's proprietary government in 1719.
		British imperial responses to the war, moreover, prompted the first calls for a buffer colony to protect Carolina's southern border against Indian or even French or Spanish attacks, which culminated in the establishment of Georgia in 1733.
		Early efforts to understand the causes of the war focused mainly on the inflammatory behavior of English traders.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jah/90.1/ramsey.html (707 words)

	Yemasee War of 1715
		As with most wars, the causes of the Yamassee War begin well before the start of the conflict.
		Shortly after the completion of Queen Anne's War, the Creek began to get agitated with the English traders on the border of their nation.
		For many years the Cherokee and Creek had been enemies, so the Cherokee were only too happy to join the war on the side of the South Carolinians.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /wars/Georgia_Wars/yamasee_war.html (736 words)

	Tuscarora War
		The war quickly escalated, and ultimately resulted in the dispersion, fragmentation, and a partial northern migration of this Iroquois group.
		The second phase of the Tuscarora War of 1712-1713, when the British defeated the Tuscarora residing along Contentnea Creek near present-day Snow Hill in Greene County, In a final standoff, Colonel James Moore led his men, aided by Yamasee Indians, into the Tuscarora village of Neoheroka in 1713, killing and capturing one thousand inhabitants.
		In this capacity they were especially helpful in such wars as the Tuscarora War in North Carolina in 1711, and in the Yamasee War in South Carolina from 1715 to 1718.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/tuscarora.htm (627 words)

	David Brion Davis: Keynote Address, Conference on Arming Slaves (2000)
		This seeming anomaly is precisely the kind of subject the Gilder Lehrman Center is eager to explore, as part of its effort to convey to both academics and the general public a better understanding of both the extraordinary importance and the complexity of the institution of slavery in human history.
		As Morgan shows, the war devastated large regions of the South and led to the conscription of thousands of slaves in the British West Indies, many for duty on British warships.
		In view of the negative slave growth rate throughout the Caribbean, this measure ensured a declining slave population in the British colonies and was thus one of the most important legacies of the Age of Revolution, especially in view of Britain's continuing diplomatic and military campaign to end the slave trade of other European nations.
	www.yale.edu /glc/events/arming/keynote.htm (3086 words)

	Georgia - part of the USA Family Tree network
		The coast of Georgia was occupied by English-allied Indians such as the Yamasee until the Yamasee War of 1715-1716, after which the region was depopulated, opening up the possibility of a new British colony.
		Georgia was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, despite a large population of people loyal to the crown.
		Following the war, it became the fourth state of the United States of America after ratifying the United States Constitution on January 2, 1788.
	www.usafamilytree.com /georgia_usa_family_tree.htm (1016 words)

	A Colonial Complex - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The South Carolina militia retaliated repeatedly until, by 1717, the Yamasees were nearly annihilated, and their survivors fled to Spanish Florida.
		The war not only sent shock waves throughout South Carolina's government, economy, and society, but also had a profound impact on colonial and Indian cultures from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River.
		Drawing on a diverse range of colonial records, A Colonial Complex builds on recent developments in frontier history and depicts the Yamasee War as part of a colonial complex: a broad pattern of exchange that linked the Southeast’s Indian, African, and European cultures throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
	unp.unl.edu /bookinfo/4630.html (471 words)

	Tribal History - The Notowega
		During the Revolutionary War, the Nanticokes joined the intertribal Chickamauga forces and fought on the side of the British; and subsequently became persona non grata in the US afterwards.
		Tradition informs us that there were many wars between the Choctaws and Chickasaws for a period of more than one hundred years, during which time the Choctaws were mainly victorious; but the wars thinned the ranks of both, of their best and bravest warriors.
		They shall also restore all the negroes, and all other property taken during the late war, from the citizens, if any there be in the Chickasaw nation, to such person, and at such time and place, as the Commissioners of the United States of America shall appoint.
	www.notoweega.org /tribal-history.html (9196 words)

	8 - A Brave Journey
		Sometime later, the Yuchis migrated south, perhaps because of war with the Cherokee Indians who came to dominate in the mountains.
		The alliances that had helped fuel the Yamasee War were the beginnings of the Creek Confederacy, a loose, often changing coalition of various Indian groups.
		Ritual objects, such as scalping knives, war clubs, swan wings, eagle feathers, or herbs, hung from the ceilings, while the walls were often painted with mythical creatures, such as the uktena, a winged serpent.
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/benning-book/ch08.htm (3830 words)

	The Tuscarora War
		It was not until 1713 that the settlers regained control, when Captain James Moore, supplemented by Yamasee warriors, defeated the Tuscarora at their village of Neoheroka.
		Some of the captured Tuscarora were sold into slavery to help defray war costs, while the remainder was forced out of Carolina.
		The Tuscarora War of 1711 The first successful and permanent colonization of North Carolina by Europeans began in earnest in 1653.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h627.html (321 words)

	2004 Atlantic Seminar WP Abstracts
		Indians were proactive in Indian enslavement both before and after the war, with distinct traditions of slavery that shaped trade, politics, warfare, and diplomacy.
		Yet, analyses of Indian slavery after the Yamasee War ignore Indian models of slavery and the salient role it played in local intercultural and international affairs.
		Ultimately, his notorious trial and burning of a prominent indigenous leader in 1539 forced the Spanish to reconsider whether a religious war for the indigenous spirit was worth provoking a possible indigenous rebellion.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~atlantic/abstr04.html (3891 words)

	TNGenWeb, The Keetoowah Society and the Avocation of Religious Nationalism in the Cherokee Nation, 1855-1867 - Chapter 1
		Though history may record these encounters as "Indian wars," the "wars" were simply Native American responses to slaving operations of the English and their Shawnee allies.
		The intermarriage of Africans and Native Americans was facilitated by the disproportionality of African male slaves to females (3 to 1) and the decimation of Native American males by disease, enslavement, and prolonged war against the colonists.
		During the intertribal wars encouraged by the English in order to produce slaves, the largest majority of those enslaved were women and children in accordance with historic patterns among Native Americans.
	www.tngenweb.org /tncolor/keetood1.htm (16916 words)

	contact 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It cannot be taken from them unless by their free consent, or by the right of conquest in case of a just war.
		To dispossess them on any other principle, would be a gross violation of the fundamental laws of nature, and of that distributive justice which is the glory of a nation"
		Knox in private: wanted to find a policy that "would gradually obtain Indian land, would be as cheap as possible, would avoid war, would redound to the honor of the United states, and would benefit the Indians as well as the advancing frontiersmen"
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/contact_2005/10_Revolution.html (238 words)

	Amazon.com: "Tuscarora War": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He also correctly assumed that Indian armies could destroy the Carolinas, for the Tuscarora War and the Yamasee War later showed how vulnerable those colonies were to inland attacks.
		Graffenrcid, who was held by the Tuscarora during their raid on the New Bern settlement at the start of the Tuscarora War in 1711, noted that the Tuscarora returned with prisoners: I observed that when the Indian soldiers.
		After the Tuscarora War ended in 1713, the Chowan were confined to a reservation of six square miles in Bertie County called Indian Woods.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Tuscarora-War (606 words)

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