| LC control no. | sh 85148962 |
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| LC classification | E99.Y22 |
| Topical heading | Yamasee Indians |
| Variant(s) | Yamacraw Indians Yamassee Indians |
| See also | Creek Indians Indians of North America--Florida Indians of North America--Georgia Indians of North America--South Carolina |
| Found in | The Yamasee Indians from Florida to South Carolina, 2018 (summary: "The Yamasee Indians are best known for their involvement in the Indian slave trade and the eighteenth-century war (1715-54) that took their name") page xiii (the Yamasee Indians lived on lands that ranged from northern Florida to southern South Carolina; in the third quarter of the seventeenth century many Yamasees migrated to the mainland north of the Savannah River; partnered with English and Scots to conduct slave raids in the Southeast) The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes, ©1998: v. 1, page 499 (The Yamasee were a southern woodlands people who lived in Florida and the coastal region of Georgia in the centuries preceding European encroachment and later became closely associated with South Carolina history; perished as a tribal identity by 1850) |
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