Utina

Northern Utina was a Timucua-speaking country of villages in the Suwannee and Santa Fe river region. Its chiefs held authority among neighbouring communities, while farmers cultivated the fields around their towns. Hernando de Soto's expedition crossed this country in 1539, taking the chief Aguacaleycuen captive. In the early seventeenth century Spanish missions spread among the Northern Utina. The demands of colonial rule contributed to the Timucua rebellion of 1656, in which chiefs and communities of the interior took part.