Ais

The Ais chiefdom occupied Florida's eastern coast around the Indian River, where local chiefs answered to a paramount chief. They ate fish, turtles and shellfish.

In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés visited the Ais chief town and secured its chief's pledge of loyalty to Spain, but attempts to seize food led to fighting. Shipwrecked merchant Jonathan Dickinson passed through Ais territory in 1696. Soon after 1700, Carolina colonists and their Indigenous allies raided for captives to sell; raids and disease devastated the Ais in the following decades.