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Les Mayaimi (également Maymi, Maimi) étaient des Amérindiens qui vivaient autour du lac Mayaimi (aujourd'hui le lac Okeechobee) dans la région de Belle Glade en Floride du début de l'ère commune jusqu'au XVII e ou XVIII e siècle. Dans les langues des tribus Mayaimi, Calusa et Tequesta, Mayaimi signifiait « grande eau ». L'origine de la ...
Mayaimi People. The Mayaimi People lived around Lake Okeechobee from at least 300 BC to until around 1700 AD. 1 Their ancestors probably lived in the region as early as 1000 BC, because some village sites show continual cultural development from that era forward. The Mayaimi were the progenitors of the Glades Culture.
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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 ...
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 ...
Le nom "Miami" est d'ailleurs dérivé de l'amérindien "Mayaimi" qui signifie "eau douce". 1513 L’existence de Miami n’est officiellement attestée qu’au XVIe siècle, lorsque Juan Ponce de León (1460-1521), l’ancien gouverneur de Porto Rico, qui fit partie du second voyage de Christophe Colomb, visite le premier la Floride.
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 ...
