Yamacraw

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Tomochichi, chief of the Yamacraw, with his nephew Toonahowi

The Yamacraw were a tribe of North American indigenous people who emerged after the Yamasee War around 1730 from a connection between some former Yamasee and Creek Indians . The Yamasee group may have lived with the Apalachicola in the years between the war and the creation of the Yamacraw . The origin of the name is uncertain, one explanation is based on the mission station Nombre de Dios de Amacarisse in the former settlement area of ​​the Spanish colony of Florida .

The settlement area of ​​the Yamacraw is in the vicinity of today's city of Savannah in the then newly formed colony of Georgia in the southeastern United States , with whose settlers the Indians lived in marked friendship. It is believed that the tribe ultimately allied with the Creek and later moved to Florida.

The tribe played a role in the development of Georgia, of particular importance was Chief Tomochichi , a native of Creek, who worked closely with the settlers. He was the companion of Governor James Edward Oglethorpe on a trip to England and is considered a friend of the Georgian colony.

Today various geographic points, schools, ships remind US Navy and a village Yamacraw , North Carolina to the Yamacraw and their leader, their history and meaning is part of the national memorial Ford Frederica National Monument .

literature

John R. Swanton: The Indian Tribes of North America. Genealogical Publishing Co, 2003, ISBN 0-8063-1730-2 .

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