Calusa

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• Encounters between Spaniards and Calusa went on for more than two centuries.

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• Worth has the names of Calusa Indians who lived in Cuba and hopes to trace their ancestors through church records.

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• But the modern world is never far away, and significant Calusa sites have been destroyed by development.

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• In the water world of the Calusa, it seems like the archaeologically appropriate thing to do.

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• Recent research has focused on one of the great achievements of the Calusa: canals.

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• Thanks to archival resources, we know much about the last chapters in the history of the Calusa.

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• Start with the life-size reconstruction of a Calusa temple at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.

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• Her discoveries make it clear that the Calusa, long thought to have been nonagricultural fishermen, also relied heavily on plants.

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• At one point, the Calusa, fighting from catamaran canoes, attacked the Spaniards aboard their ships.

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• In 1566, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish Florida's first governor, led an expedition to the Calusa.

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