Yamassee

<Who were the Yamassee? Even though it is clear that they existed, some have often felt the need to try and tie, the Actual tribe of Yamassee Native Americans, to a Nuwaubanist Group. Why this have been done is Uncertain, but if Research is done, you will find the Yamassee, deep in history when it came to Wars,in Georgia, South Carolina and more!

The Yamassee is Noticed to have wars against several Countries that Came here to America to Lay Claim. Please See the Yamassee War of 1715 Link listed below.

They are called a tribe and have commonly been placed on ethnic and linguistic maps of the original Southeastern Indians, postioned somewhere in the middle Georgia area, or along the Georgia and South Carolina coast. Found In John Swanton's 1922 treatie on the Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, a book which still dominates text as a seminal and exhaustive source on the subject, the author asserted and I quote "that the Yamassee must have been an indigenous tribe originally connected to the coastal Guale", but were somehow obscured until late in the historical record.

The Yamassee Native Americans have long figured prominently in historical accounts of the early history of the Southern colonies. Their tenure in the late 17th-century missions of Spanish Florida, and along the southern frontier of early 18th-century Carolina, ensured them a notable place in Southern history alongside other contemporaneous groups such as the Creek and Cherokee, despite their eventual exile and virtual extinction before the time of the American Revolution. In 1715, however, the Yamassee took center stage as they sparked a widespread and violent revolt that left hundreds of South Carolina settlers and traders dead, and that ultimately reconfigured the entire social landscape of the southeastern borderlands. Nevertheless, despite their relatively prominent historical visibility, the Yamassees have always remained something of an enigma for historians, anthropologists, and others searching for clues as to their origins.

In recent years, substantial advances have been made in the archaeology and early colonial ethnohistory of the Southeastern Indians, and particularly regarding the many groups that inhabited the broad region that has been called the Spanish Borderlands, generally positioned between Spanish Florida and the southernmost English colonies of Carolina and Georgia. As a result of these advances, many of which are still ongoing, present-day scholars are now able to draw upon a far more complete and detailed database of archaeological and particularly documentary data than has ever been available before. In this context, the question of Yamassee origins can now be addressed with a greater degree of specificity and accuracy than was previously possible.

For More Information Please goto: Early http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/wars/Georgia_Wars/yamasee_war.html for Information on The Yamassee War!