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APALACHEE (apparently a Choctaw name, = "people on the other side ")

APALACHEE (apparently a See also:
CHOCTAW
Choctaw name, = "See also:
PEOPLE
people on the other See also:
SIDE
SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)
side ") , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Muskhogean stock. They have been known since the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and formerly ranged the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country around Apalachee See also:

Bay, See also:

FLORIDA

Florida. About 1600 the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish See also:

FRANCISCANS (otherwise called Friars Minor, or Minorites; also the Seraphic Order ; and in England Grey Friars, from the colour of the habit, which, however, is now brown rather than grey)

Franciscans founded a successful See also:

MISSION

mission among them, but See also:

early in the 18th century the tribe suffered defeat at the hands of the See also:

BRITISH

British, the mission churches were burnt, the priests killed, and the tribe practically annihilated, more than one thousand of them being sold as slaves. See Handbook of American Indians, ed. F. W. See also:

HODGE, CHARLES (1797-1878)

Hodge (See also:

Washington, 1907).

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