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Yamasee

Noun

Meaning

Yamasee (plural Yamasees or Yamasee)

(historical) A member of a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Fearing they would come under French influence, the British reopened the deerskin trade with the Lower Creeks, antagonizing the Yamasee, now allies of Spain. Source: Internet

The most important were the Catawba ( Siouan language ), Cherokee ( Iroquoian languages ), and Yamasee ( Muskhogean language). Source: Internet

With Florida depopulated, English traders paid other tribes to attack and enslave the Yamasee, leading to the Yamassee War of 1715–17. Source: Internet

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