Approximate territory of the Mayaimi tribe

The Mayaimis were a tribe of Native Americans who lived around Lake Okeechobee in Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th Century. The group took their name from the lake, which was then called Mayaimi. Mayaimi meant 'big water' in the language of the Mayaimis, Calusas and Tequestas. The current name of Okeechobee for the lake is derived from the Miccosukee word meaning 'big water'. There was no linguistic or cultural relationship with the Miamis of Ohio. A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ... Lake Okeechobee, locally referred to as Lake O, The Big Lake, or simply The Lake is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville (largest metropolitan area is Miami) Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Official language(s) English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... The Common Era (CE), also known as the Christian Era and sometimes the Current Era, is the period beginning with the year 1 onwards. ... The Calusa, sometimes spelled Caloosa or Calosa, were a Native American group that lived on the coast and along the inner waterways of Floridas southwest coast. ... This page is about the Tequesta Native American tribe. ... --Magicmonster 18:19, 14 August 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... The Miami are a Native American tribe originally found in Indiana and Ohio. ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Official languages None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George V. Voinovich (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 8. ...

The Mayaimis left ceremonial and village mounds around Lake Okeechobee like those used by the Mound Builders. They also dug many canals to use as pathways for their canoes. The dugout canoes were a platform-type with shovel-shaped ends resembling those used in Central America and the West Indies, rather than the pointed-end canoes used by other peoples in the southeastern United States. This article is about mound-building birds. ... The Southeastern United States or simply the Southeast refers to a region in the southeastern part of the USA. It usually consists of the following southern states: Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia Florida and sometimes: Arkansas Oklahoma Texas These states are more often referred to as simply the South, although that...

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who lived with the tribes of southern Florida for seventeen years in the 16th Century, said that the Mayaimis lived in many towns of thirty or forty inhabitants each, and that there many more places where only a few people lived. Lake Okeechobee provided most of the Mayaimis' food. They used fishing weirs and ate bass, eels, alligator tails, opossum, terrapins and snakes, and processed coontie for flour. In high water season they lived on their mounds and ate only fish. Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda(ca. ... Fishing Weir- a piece of early technology used by North American Natives and early settlers to catch fish for trade and to feed their communities. ... Bass can refer to: In music (low frequencies): Instruments: Bass guitar. ... Families Suborder Anguilloidei Anguillidae (freshwater eels) Heterenchelyidae Moringuidae (worm eels) Xenocongridae (false morays) Muraenidae (moray eels) Myrocongridae Suborder Nemichthyoidei Nemichthyidae (snipe eels) Serrivomeridae (sawtooth snipe eels) Cyemidae (bobtail snipe eels) Suborder Congroidei Congridae (congers) Muraenesocidae (conger pikes) Nettastomatidae (witch eels) Nessorhamphidae (duckbilled eels) Derichthyidae (neck eels) Ophichthidae (snake eels) Macrocephenchelyidae... Species Alligator mississippiensis Alligator sinensis An alligator is a crocodile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. ... This article or section should be merged with Virginia_opossum The word opossum (usually pronounced without the leading O, or with only a very slight schwa) refers either to the Virginia Opossum in particular, or more generally to any of the other marsupials of magnorder Ameridelphia. ... Terrapin, from the Algonquin word meaning a little turtle, may mean: An amphibious reptile Terrapin, which spends its time both in the water and on land. ... Superfamilies and Families Henophidia Aniliidae Anomochilidae Boidae Bolyeriidae Cylindrophiidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Uropeltidae Xenopeltidae Typhlopoidea Anomalepididae Leptotyphlopidae Typhlopidae Xenophidia Acrochordidae Atractaspididae Colubridae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Viperidae Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. ... Families Cycadaceae cycas family Stangeriaceae stangeria family Zamiaceae zamia family Cycads are an ancient group of seed plants which are characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. ...

References

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