Timucua

The Timucua were peoples of northern Florida and southeastern Georgia who spoke related dialects and lived in numerous chiefdoms, rather than a single state.

In 1539 Hernando de Soto's expedition crossed their lands, seized village food stores and killed those who resisted. Disease devastated the chiefdoms; in 1703 Governor James Moore led Carolina colonists and Indigenous allies on slave raids against them. When Britain took Florida in 1763, the few remaining Timucua speakers left for Cuba with Spanish colonists and mission Indians.