Noun
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.
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