Tequesta, the Glossary
The Tequesta, also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos, were a Native American tribe on the Southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.[1]
Table of Contents
89 relations: Antilles, Arawak, Archaeology, Archaic period (North America), Arecaceae, Barracuda, Bernard Romans, Biscayne Bay, Briton Hammon, Broward County, Florida, Cacique, Calusa, Calusa language, Cape Sable, Caribbean monk seal, Carl O. Sauer, Charlton W. Tebeau, Chickee, Christianity, Chrysobalanus icaco, Clam, Coccoloba diversifolia, Coccoloba uvifera, Common Era, Conch, Coral Gables, Florida, Council of the Indies, Cuba, Deer, East Florida, Florida, Florida Keys, Gainesville, Florida, Havana, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, Hessel Gerritsz, Human sacrifice, Jaega, Jesuits, Joannes de Laet, Juan Ponce de León, Key Biscayne, Lake Okeechobee, Licania, Little River (Biscayne Bay), Loincloth, Manatee, Mayaimi, Mexico, Miami Circle, ... Expand index (39 more) »
- Native American tribes in Florida
- Post-Classic period in the Americas
- Unclassified languages of North America
Antilles
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
Arawak
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Archaic period (North America)
In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development. Tequesta and archaic period (North America) are archaic period in North America.
See Tequesta and Archaic period (North America)
Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.
Barracuda
A barracuda is a large, predatory, ray-finned fish known for its fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour.
Bernard Romans
Bernard Romans (1720–1784) was a Dutch-born navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter, and writer who worked in the British American colonies and the United States.
See Tequesta and Bernard Romans
Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.
Briton Hammon
Briton Hammon was a slave of African descent who lived in British North America during the middle of the 18th century.
See Tequesta and Briton Hammon
Broward County, Florida
Broward County is a county in Florida, United States, located in the Miami metropolitan area.
See Tequesta and Broward County, Florida
Cacique
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places.
Calusa
The Calusa (Calusa: *ka(ra)luš(i)) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast. Tequesta and Calusa are native American tribes in Florida and Spanish Florida.
Calusa language
The Calusa language is an unclassified language of southern Florida, United States that was spoken by the Calusa people. Tequesta and Calusa language are unclassified languages of North America.
See Tequesta and Calusa language
Cape Sable
Cape Sable is the southernmost point of the United States mainland and mainland Florida.
Caribbean monk seal
The Caribbean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis), also known as the West Indian seal or sea wolf, is an extinct species of seal native to the Caribbean.
See Tequesta and Caribbean monk seal
Carl O. Sauer
Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer.
See Tequesta and Carl O. Sauer
Charlton W. Tebeau
Charlton W. Tebeau (1904–2000) was the former chairperson of the department of history and a professor of history at the University of Miami and an American historian and author who specialized in the history of Florida.
See Tequesta and Charlton W. Tebeau
Chickee
Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Chrysobalanus icaco
Chrysobalanus icaco, the cocoplum, paradise plum, abajeru or icaco, also called fat pork in Trinidad and Tobago, is a low shrub or bushy tree found near sea beaches and inland throughout tropical Africa, tropical Americas and the Caribbean, and in southern Florida and the Bahamas.
See Tequesta and Chrysobalanus icaco
Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs.
Coccoloba diversifolia
Coccoloba diversifolia, known as pigeonplum or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and the Bahamas.
See Tequesta and Coccoloba diversifolia
Coccoloba uvifera
Coccoloba uvifera is a species of tree and flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae, that is native to coastal beaches throughout tropical America and the Caribbean, including central & southern Florida, the Bahamas, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and Bermuda.
See Tequesta and Coccoloba uvifera
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Conch
Conch is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails.
Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
See Tequesta and Coral Gables, Florida
Council of the Indies
The Council of the Indies (Consejo de las Indias), officially the Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies (Real y Supremo Consejo de las Indias), was the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire for the Americas and those territories it governed, such as the Spanish East Indies.
See Tequesta and Council of the Indies
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
East Florida
East Florida (Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821.
Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Florida Keys
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States.
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022.
See Tequesta and Gainesville, Florida
Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (– after 1575, dates uncertain) was a Spanish shipwreck survivor who lived among the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years.
See Tequesta and Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda
Hessel Gerritsz
Hessel Gerritsz (– buried 4 September 1632) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer, and publisher.
See Tequesta and Hessel Gerritsz
Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.
See Tequesta and Human sacrifice
Jaega
The Jaega (also Jega, Xega, Geiga) were Native Americans living in a chiefdom of the same name, which included the coastal parts of present-day Martin County and northern Palm Beach County, Florida at the time of initial European contact, and until the 18th century. Tequesta and Jaega are native American tribes in Florida.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Joannes de Laet
Joannes or Johannes De Laet (Latinized as Ioannes Latius) (1581 in Antwerp – buried 15 December 1649, in Leiden) was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company.
See Tequesta and Joannes de Laet
Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513.
See Tequesta and Juan Ponce de León
Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne (Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida.
See Tequesta and Lake Okeechobee
Licania
Licania is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Little River (Biscayne Bay)
The Little River is a river passing through the northern part of Miami, Florida, United States.
See Tequesta and Little River (Biscayne Bay)
Loincloth
A loincloth is a one-piece garment, either wrapped around itself or kept in place by a belt.
Manatee
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.
Mayaimi
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. Tequesta and Mayaimi are native American tribes in Florida and Spanish Florida.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Miami Circle
The Miami Circle, also known as The Miami River Circle, Brickell Point, or The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, is an archaeological site in Brickell, Miami, Florida.
Miami River (Florida)
The Miami River is a river in the U.S. state of Florida that drains out of the Everglades and runs through the city of Miami, including Downtown.
See Tequesta and Miami River (Florida)
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.
See Tequesta and Miami-Dade County, Florida
Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States. Tequesta and Muscogee are native American tribes in Florida.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
See Tequesta and Native Americans in the United States
Nopal
Nopal is a common name in Spanish for Opuntia cacti (commonly referred to in English as prickly pear or tender cactus), as well as for its pads.
Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers.
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes.
Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Beach County is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area.
See Tequesta and Palm Beach County, Florida
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Pedro (Menéndez) d'Avilés; 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral, explorer and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain.
See Tequesta and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Pompano Beach Mound
The Pompano Beach Mound, located at Indian Mound Park in Pompano Beach, Florida, in Broward County, is a wide, tall oval Tequesta burial mound.
See Tequesta and Pompano Beach Mound
Pompano Beach, Florida
Pompano Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
See Tequesta and Pompano Beach, Florida
Porpoise
Porpoises are small dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae.
Sabal palmetto
Sabal palmetto (SAY-bəl), also known as cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, Garfield's tree, and swamp cabbage, is one of 15 species of palmetto palm.
See Tequesta and Sabal palmetto
Sailfish
The sailfish is one of two species of marine fish in the genus Istiophorus, which belong to the family Istiophoridae (marlins).
Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people who developed in Florida in the 18th century. Tequesta and Seminole are native American tribes in Florida.
Serenoa
Serenoa repens, commonly known as saw palmetto, is a small palm, growing to a maximum height around.
Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
Sideroxylon foetidissimum
Sideroxylon foetidissimum, commonly known as false mastic or yellow mastic, is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae.
See Tequesta and Sideroxylon foetidissimum
Smilax
Smilax is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide.
South Florida
South Florida, sometimes colloquially shortened to SoFlo, is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida.
See Tequesta and South Florida
Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast, the Southeast, or the South, is a geographical region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
See Tequesta and Southeastern United States
Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spanish Florida
Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery.
See Tequesta and Spanish Florida
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Tequesta and Spanish language
Spiny lobster
Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia.
See Tequesta and Spiny lobster
St. Lucie Inlet
The St.
See Tequesta and St. Lucie Inlet
Stingray
Stingrays are a group of sea rays, a type of cartilaginous fish.
Straits of Florida
The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.
See Tequesta and Straits of Florida
Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.
Tunica language
The Tunica or Luhchi Yoroni (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron) language is a language isolate that was spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples.
See Tequesta and Tunica language
Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
See Tequesta and United Kingdom
Venison
Venison originally meant the meat of a game animal but now refers primarily to the meat of deer (or antelope in South Africa).
Ximenia americana
Ximenia americana, commonly known as tallow wood, hog plum, yellow plum, sea lemon, or pi'ut (Chamorro), is bush-forming shrub/small tree; a species from the Ximenia genus in the Olacaceae family.
See Tequesta and Ximenia americana
Yaupon tea
Yaupon tea (also known as "Beloved drink", "Cassina", "Big Medicine", or "White drink" by Natives; and "Black drink", "Carolina Tea", "South Seas Tea", or "Indian tea" by Europeans) is refers to several kinds of caffeinated beverages originally brewed by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States and later adopted by Europeans and Americans.
Zamia integrifolia
Zamia integrifolia, also known as coontie palm, is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and Georgia), and the Bahamas.
See Tequesta and Zamia integrifolia
See also
Native American tribes in Florida
- Acuera
- Agua Dulce people
- Ais people
- Amacano people
- Apalachee
- Apalachee Province
- Apalachicola Province
- Apalachicola band
- Bill Osceola
- Caloosahatchee culture
- Calusa
- Chacato
- Chine people
- Glades culture
- Ibi people
- Indigenous people of the Everglades region
- Indigenous peoples of Florida
- Jaega
- Mayaca people
- Mayaimi
- Miccosukee
- Mocama
- Mocoso
- Muscogee
- Muspa
- Norwood culture
- Ocale
- Oconee (tribal town)
- Pensacola people
- Pohoy
- Potano
- Saturiwa
- Seminole
- Seminole Tribe of Florida
- Surruque
- Tacatacuru
- Tequesta
- Timucua
- Tocobaga
- Urriparacoxi
- Uzita (Florida)
Post-Classic period in the Americas
- Aztec
- Aztecs
- Cuyuteco
- Economy of the Inca Empire
- Inca Empire
- Iroquois
- Muisca Confederation
- Neo-Inca State
- Post-Classic stage
- Tequesta
Unclassified languages of North America
- Adai language
- Akokisa
- Alagüilac language
- Aranama language
- Bayogoula
- Bidai language
- Calusa language
- Cayuse language
- Congaree people
- Coree
- Cueva language
- Cusabo
- Eyeish
- Guachichil
- Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
- List of unclassified languages of North America
- Nansemond language
- Naolan language
- Otomi language (Jalisco)
- Pamunkey language
- Pascagoula
- Pastia people
- Payaya people
- Pericú language
- Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
- Quinigua language
- Quinipissa
- Sewee
- Solano language
- Suma people
- Tawasa language
- Tequesta
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequesta
Also known as Chequesta, Tegesta, Tegeᶘta, Tekesta, Tequesta Indians, Tequesta language, Tequesta people, Tequestas, Vizcayno, Vizcaynos.
, Miami River (Florida), Miami-Dade County, Florida, Muscogee, Native Americans in the United States, Nopal, Opuntia, Ostraciidae, Oyster, Palm Beach County, Florida, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Pompano Beach Mound, Pompano Beach, Florida, Porpoise, Sabal palmetto, Sailfish, Sea turtle, Seminole, Serenoa, Shamanism, Shark, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, Smilax, South Florida, Southeastern United States, Spain, Spanish Florida, Spanish language, Spiny lobster, St. Lucie Inlet, Stingray, Straits of Florida, Taíno, Tunica language, Turtle, United Kingdom, Venison, Ximenia americana, Yaupon tea, Zamia integrifolia.