Jerald T Milanich
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Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creek Indians. When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the modern countryside, one that was cooler, drier, and almost twice the size. Thousands of years later European explorers encountered...
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"Artist Theodore Morris's rendering of Florida's early peoples reflects his passion to create a pictorial record of the state's vanished heritage and of the tribes who have been forgotten through the centuries. The 58 detailed paintings in this book are based on historical evidence and the artist's own research, conducted side-by-side with archaeologists and anthropologists at excavation sites throughout the state. Morris re-creates the lives of these...
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"In 1873, an adventurous New York City newspaper correspondent came to Florida and revealed the beautiful, the odd, and the dangerous to his cosmopolitan readership. "Ziska," a pioneer in human-interest reporting, stripped away the veneer of paradise for the droves of northerners being drawn to this southern wonderland and contrasted the Big Apple with the "land of flowers." No topic was too far removed or unimportant for his readers. Ziska covered...