S/O to Johnnie Aborigine for putting in that work 🔥💯🔥💯
Georgia, known to the Spaniards as Guale, was a province of Florida during the late 16th century and throughout the entire 17th century. Only few months after the founding of St. Augustine, Menéndez hastened north, and after establishing friendly relations with the Indians of Georgia coast, he left garrisons on St. Catharines Island, known during this period as Guale Island or Santa Catalina de Guale, and on Cumberland Island (San Pedro). When the French Huguenot colony was at Port Royal, South Carolina, in 1562, they heard of a Guale chief called Ouadé and visited him several times for provisions. In 1573 missionary work was resumed by the Franciscans and was successful when in 1597 there was a general insurrection in which most of the missionaries were killed. The governor of Florida shortly afterward burned many of the Guale towns with their granaries, reducing most of the Guale Indians to submission, and by 1601 the rebellion was over. Missionary work was resumed afterward and continued despite insurrections in 1608 and 1645 and attacks by Guale Indians in 1661, 1680, and even earlier. As a result of these attacks, the Guale Indians who didn’t escape inland moved in 1686 to the islands of San Pedro, Santa Maria, and San Juan north of St. Augustine. Guale/ #Gullah Indians were constantly warring with the French & Spanish throughout the 1500s-1600s. At the time of the removal, some Guale Indians appear to have gone to South Carolina, and in 1702 a general insurrection of the remainder took place, and they joined their Yamassee kinsmen. Few remained in Florida. All, except who fled to the Creeks, were united after the 1715 Yamassee War and continued to live in St. Augustine until their “extinction.” In 1726 there were two missions near St. Augustine occupied by Indians of the “Iguaja nation” (Guale), but thats supposedly the last heard of “Guale” as an indigenous tribe until they lived with the Yamassee
