Hernado de Escalante Fontaneda
Hernando de Escalante's little-known story is a fascinating tale. At the age of thirteen, he was shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. He spent the next seventeen years living among the Calusa Indians. This allowed him to learn several native languages and he later served as a translator for the first Jesuits in Florida.
The Florida Indians
In his Memoria de las cosas y costa e indios de la Florida (Memoirs of the things, the shore, and the Indians of La Florida) Hernando de Escalante offers us one of the richest sources of information about the Calusa Indians and other peoples of southern Florida.
Mask Maker
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The Tequesta People
"in winter all of the canoes go out to sea... one Indian from among them goes out… carrying three stakes at his waist and a rope around his neck and when the whale dives under, he puts a stake through its blowhole and... it cannot escape because the Indian is riding on its back". Hernando de Escalante.
Tequesta people