While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Fish-eating Creek. A Seminole settlement with 32
inhabitants in 1880, situated 5 m. from the mouth of a creek that empties into
L. Okeechobee, Manatee co., Fla. MacCauley in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 478, 1887.
Florida Indians. A term almost as vague as the ancient
geographic conception of Florida itself, used (Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., vi,
243, 1855) to designate Indians who robbed a vessel stranded on the Florida
keys in 1741-42. Schoolcraft (Ind. Tribes, vi, 47, 1857) refers to it as
a term vaguely applied to the "Apalachian group of tribes." (A. S. G.)
Four Nations. Mentioned with the Kawita and Kasihta as
having a conference with the English near the mouth of Apalachicola r., Fla., in
1814 (Hawkins in Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 859, 1832). Probably the
Oakfuskee, with their 3 villages on the Chattahoochee, were meant.
Fowl Town. A former Seminole town in x. w. Florida,
about 12 m. E. of Ft Scott, on Apalachicola r. at the Georgia boundary,
containing about 300 inhabitants in 1820. The name has been given also in the
plural as though including more than one town. It is distinct from Tutalosi,
also called Fowl Town.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
