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The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century. In the languages of the Mayaimi, Calusa, and Tequesta tribes, Mayaimi meant "big water." The origin of the language has not been ...
Citations: “Mayaimi People.”Wikipedia. [][Sturtevant, William C. (1978) “The Last of the South Florida Aborigines”, in Jerald Milanich and Samuel Proctor, Eds. Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period, The University Presses of Florida.
Old Miakka, Florida. / 27.31306°N 82.26667°W / 27.31306; -82.26667. Old Miakka (or Old Myakka) is a census-designated place in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located at the bend of County Road 780, where it changes from running north–south to east–west. The community is part of the North Port – Sarasota ...
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The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 10,000 years ago. The region was filled with pine hardwood forests and was home to plenty of deer, bear, and wild fowl. These first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River, with their main villages on the northern banks. These early Native Americans ...
1900s to 1930
Miami experienced a very rapid growth up to World War II. In 1900, 1,681 people lived in Miami; in 1910, there were 5,471 people; and in 1920, there were 29,549 people. As thousands of people moved to the area in the early 20th century, the need for more land quickly became apparent. Until then, the Florida Everglades extended to within three miles (5 km) of Biscayne Bay. Beginning in 1906, canals were made to remove some of the water from those lands. Miami Beach was developed in 1913 when a...
1940s
By the early 1940s, Miami was still recovering from the Great Depression when World War II started. Though many of the cities in Florida were heavily affected by the war and went into financial ruin, Miami remained relatively unaffected. Early in the war, German U-boats attacked several American ships including Portero del Llano, which was attacked and sunk within sight of Miami Beach in May 1942. To defend against the U-boats, Miami was placed in two military districts, the Eastern Defense C...
In 2000, the Elián González affair was an immigration battle in the Miami area. The controversy concerned six-year-old Elián González who was rescued from the waters off the coast of Miami. The U.S. and the Cuban governments, his father Juan Miguel González, his Miami relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami were all involved. The clima...
Allman, T. D. Miami: City of the Future(1987)Capó Jr, Julio. Welcome to fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940(U North Carolina Press, 2017).Cohen, Isidor. Historical sketches and sidelights of Miami, Florida (Jazzybee Verlag, 2017) onlineGeorge, Paul S. "Passage to the New Eden: Tourism in Miami from Flagler through Everest G. Sewell." Florida Historical Quarterly (1981): 440-463. onlineHistoryMiami official website of HistoryMiami(formerly the Historical Museum of Southern Florida)Outside of their reservations, today the legacy of Greater Miami’s indigenous peoples primarily lives on in our place names. “Miami” itself comes from the word mayaimi (primarily credited to the Calusa) meaning “big water.”. ( Dade, by the way, is the surname of Major Francis L. Dade, who fought and was killed in the “second” of ...
Ais & Mayaimi Each Ais town had its own leader referred to by a native word that the Spanish translated as “cacique” and the English as “casseekey.”. These leaders were most likely the heads of the most respected matrilineal families or clans in their villages. For the most part, these town leaders seem to have ruled only through the ...
The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century. In the languages of the Mayaimi, Calusa, and Tequesta tribes, Mayaimi meant "big water." The origin of the language has not been determined, as the meanings of only ten words were ...
