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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Georgia and South Carolina. The Yamasee dispersed to other Native American groups after conflict with English colonists in the early 1700s.
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After the Yamasee War they became known as the Catawba, which means "cut off," apparently referring to their being cut off from other Siouan tribes.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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It is believed that the Yamasee likewise spoke the Hitchiti language.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Yamasee, in whose language Brother Báez prepared a grammar and a catechism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Fifteen years later four Franciscan priests and two lay brothers were at work in the towns of the Timucua and Yamasee from St. Augustine northwards into Georgia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In the same year the Governor of Florida, alarmed at the growing strength of the English colony of Carolina, undertook to remove the Indians of the northern missions to more southern settlements with the result that the Yamasee again revolted and, being supplied with guns by the English, attacked and destroyed the mission on Saint Catherine island, Georgia, and carried off a troop of Christian Indians prisoners to sell as slaves in Carolina.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Franciscans arriving, the Yamasee missions were re-established in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Of the priests who arrived from Spain with Father Pareja, several went to the Yamasee, while the others devoted attention to the Timucua, whose principal mission settlements were San Juan, already mentioned; San Pedro, on
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In 1597 a chief of the Yamasee organised a conspiracy which seems to have included also a part of the Timucua tribe about St. Augustine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Yamasee war in 1715-1716, and in a war waged on their own account in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The advance of the Indians was finally checked by some Spanish troops, after all the Yamasee missions had been destroyed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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