THE YAMASEE INDIANS THE YAMASEE INDIANS From Florida to South Carolina Edited and with an introduction by denise i. bossy Foreword by alan gallay University of Nebraska Press lincoln & london © 2018 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Acknowledgments for the use of copyrighted material appear on page 157, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Bossy, Denise I., editor, writer of introduction. Title: The Yamasee Indians: from Florida to South Carolina / edited and with an introduction by Denise I. Bossy; foreword by Alan Gallay. Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018006597 isbn 9781496207609 (cloth: alk. paper) isbn 9781496212276 (epub) isbn 9781496212283 (mobi) isbn 9781496212290 (pdf) Subjects: lcsh: Yamassee Indians— History. Classification: lcc e99.y22 y36 2018 | ddc 975.7/01—d c23 lc record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov/  Set in Adobe Caslon Pro by E. Cuddy. Dedicated to Yamasee peoples, past, present, and future. Contents List of Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix List of Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Foreword, by Alan Gallay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction: Recovering Yamasee History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 denise i. bossy part 1. Yamasee Identity 1. Living at Liberty: The Ungovernable Yamasees of Spanish Florida . . . 27 amy turner bushnell 2. Yamasee Migrations into the Mocama and Timucua Mission Provinces of Florida, 1667– 1683: An Archaeological Perspective . . . . . 55 keith ashley 3. Yamasee Material Culture and Identity: Altamaha/San Marcos Ceramics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Yamasee Indian Settlements, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 eric c. poplin and jon bernard marcoux 4. Cultural Continuity and Change: Archaeological Research at Yamasee Primary Towns in South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 alexander y. sweeney part 2. Yamasee Networks 5. Spiritual Diplomacy: Reinterpreting the Yamasee Prince’s Eighteenth-C entury Voyage to England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131 denise i. bossy 6. Yamasee- African Ties in Carolina and Florida . . . . . . . . . . . .163 jane landers 7. The Long Yamasee War: Reflections on Yamasee Conflict in the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 steven c. hahn part 3. Surviving the Yamasee War 8. The Persistence of Yamasee Power and Identity at the Town of San Antonio de Pocotalaca, 1716–1 752 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 amanda hall 9. Refuge among the Spanish: Yamasee Community Coalescence in St. Augustine after 1715. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251 andrea p. white 10. Chief Francisco Jospogue: Reconstructing the Paths of a Guale- Yamasee Indian Lineage through Spanish Records. . . . . . . .281 susan richbourg parker 11. The Yamasee in West Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 john e. worth List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343 Illustrations Figures 1. View of Yamasee house from Altamaha Town. . . . . . . . . . . . 106 2. Yamasee burial, Altamaha Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 3. The Euhaw Prince’s letter to the spg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 4. Well profile, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 5. Excavation of barrel well, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 6. Decorated ceramics, La Punta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271 7. Mission red filmed bowl, La Punta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .272 8. Cacique Jospogue’s signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283 Maps 1. The colonial Southeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 2. Yamasee sites, Amelia Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 3. Yamasee regions along the St. Johns River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4. Location of the Upper and Lower Yamasee in South Carolina . . . .101 5. General location of Yamasee migrations from the 1660s to 1715 . . . .104 6. General location and sketch plan view of late Mississippian and Yamasee houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 7. Lower Yamasee settlements, ca. 1732 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 8. Yamasee slaving into Florida as depicted by Thomas Nairne . . . . .122 9. Euhaw and Yamasee worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 10. Pocotalaca community, ca. 1737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 11. Map of the Duero site units, features, and structure. . . . . . . . . .241 12. La Punta refugee community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253 13. La Punta excavations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 14. The Jospo home, St. Augustine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 15. The Yamasee in West Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311