204:.The Spanish were soon driven out of Ais territory and the captain Don Juan Velez de Medrano built a new fort called Santa Lucia at the Jupiter Inlet, in Jaega territory. The Jaega were initially friendly towards the Spanish, but later attacked the presidio and forced the Spanish to withdraw less than a year later. Jonathan Dickinson placed the Ais town he called Santa Lucea two days' travel north of the Jupiter Inlet. The names Jaega and Jobé (or variants thereof) appear on 17th-century Spanish maps of Florida, and in Spanish reports.
256:(Refuse mounds), consisting mostly of oyster and conch shells, also contain clues to the Jaega culture. Their diet consisted mainly of fish, shellfish, sea turtles, deer and raccoon, as well as wild plants including cocoplums, sea grapes, palmetto berries and tubers. Bits of broken pots and scraps of grass skirts demonstrate that crafts including pottery and weaving were known and practiced. One of the largest and best preserved Jaega middens is within what is now DuBois Park at the
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God's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence, in times of the greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger. Evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered shipwrack: and also, from the
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to west, compared to the Glades culture to the south. On the other hand, bone tools and ornaments of the East
Okeechobee region most closely resembled those of the Glades culture. The influences of neighboring cultures appears to have changed over time. After AD 1000, the East Okeechobee culture area
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I believe that the beginning point of the mutineersâ southward journey was not far south of the
Sebastian River in Indian River County. Their course, estimated at twelve to fifteen leagues in length, would have brought them to the north side of the wide St. Lucie River; from there, it is about
387:) shown in the interior of the peninsula. The map is not dated, but Lowery argues that it may have been produced as early as 1595. Seckinger argues that the map was produced in conjunction with a 1604 expibition searching for a navigable connection between the
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Okeechobee Area has received relatively little attention from archaeologists, and little is known of the origins of the Jaega, who were also called "Gega", "Jeaga", "Jega", or "Xega". The earliest mention of the Jaega came from
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Although there are no deposits of flint in South
Florida, flint dart points have been found at Jaega sites, indicating trade with northern tribes. The people used wood, bone and shell to craft tools and weapons.
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was primarily influenced by the St. Johns and Indian River cultures to the north, with little influence from the Belle Glade culture to the west, or the Glades culture of the
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that contains descriptions of the people of Jobé (near present-day
Jupiter Inlet). He wrote that Jobé was subject to the Ais chief who resided in Jece (near present-day
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Influence in the Glades, Belle Glade and East Okeechobee Area of South Florida". In Ashley, Keith; White, Nancy Marie (eds.).
224:, governor of Spanish Florida, in a 1738 letter to the King of Spain, mentioned Jaega in connection with a battle in central Florida involving the Amacapira, Bomto,
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peoples. The governor had sent a scout to investigate the battle, who reported meeting with Bomto, chief of the Bomto people, at the town of Jaega.
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in early assessments, archaeological sites and settlement patterns in Palm Beach County differed from those of the Glades culture found in the
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331:, Spain, and a copy is held by the Library of Congress. Lowery identifies the names along the coast from North to South as
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Granberry.) The Jaega were linked to the Ais by marriage between chiefs and their relatives.
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96:. The East Okeechobee region was approximately coterminous with the eastern half of present-day Palm Beach and
174:. Initially hostile to the Spanish, the Jaega entered into friendly relations with the Spanish by the 1620s.
587:(Paperback ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University Presses of Florida. pp. 140â141 (Footnote 17).
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803:. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. pp. 62â80.
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550:. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press. p. 47.
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412:" where, he states, Velez de Medrano established Santa Lucia.
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252:. Food was abundant enough to make agriculture unnecessary.
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871:. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
462:. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 100â101.
327:. The original is in the Archives of the Indies in
283:" is derived from the name of the Jaega village of
196:of Santa Lucia at what is probably the present-day
905:"The Jobé and Jaega of the Palm Beach County Area"
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547:The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Relationships
702:Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce, 1997, pp. 41-46.
410:eighteen miles, or six leagues to Jupiter Inlet,
323:The image shows part of a map which is endorsed
961:Winland, Kenneth J. (SeptemberâDecember 2002).
869:Indians of Central and South Florida: 1513-1763
888:"The Archaeology of Coastal Palm Beach County"
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