Myths of the World

 

“People of the Owl” The  Timucua  were a  Native American  people who lived in  Northeast  and  North Central Florida  and southeast  Georgia . They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35  chiefdoms , many leading thousands of people. The various groups of Timucua spoke several dialects of the  Timucua language . At the time of European contact, Timucuan speakers occupied about 19,200 square miles (50,000 km 2 ) in the present-day states of Florida and Georgia, with an estimated population of 200,000. Milanich notes that the population density calculated from those figures, 10.4 per square mile (4.0/km 2 ) is close to the population densities calculated by other authors for  the Bahamas  and for  Hispaniola  at the time of first European contact. The territory occupied by Timucua speakers stretched from the  Altamaha River  and  Cumberland Island  in...