Yamasee Indians

2011-09-02T17:21:00.000-07:00

The Yamassee Indians have been described as the most fierce warriors of all the native tribes (the colonist ),
encountered. And according to wiki submitter s they are extinct and without language!
But if we take a closer look at congressional records and confessions, of sub committees, they could have never disappeared!
This leaves me to question wiki's policy of accurate information, and those whom would continue this false hood.

Researching and being led by the Current Yamassee Nation ( http://www.yamasseenation.org) to Congressional online documents, show it would be impossible for this group of Indigenous people to have ever been, annihilated especially if they were described as " Negro" or of "African" descent or even African, European books even make the claim they were here before the land bridge. Refer to Congressional link page 824 : Congressional Online Link.

The documents being shown , verifies how these people survived, and had their own towns, even after the purported history of all of them going to the south (Florida), and falling out of existence!
The general term used in congressional records of "Negro" and " African" seems to summarizes the majority of the US population at this moment and describes what Seminole or Miccosuki use to look like.

(Black Seminole Woman)
Further research says these people were here before the Birth of Christ. And the validity of that statement can be seen in the Catawban language /yį musí:/, literally "people-ancient" which would make plenty of since. Refer to Wiki link : (Catawban Reference) Another source is in Google Books New African!

The Yamasee, yamassee, yamasi, Jemessi or how ever you decide you want to spell it, have been around seems far to long, and have integrated major members of other tribes in their Nation and history shows to just have "Disappear".
People like that does not just get defeated by a few hundred people.

Now I can only assume, the purpose for the historians of ole, reason for writing the Yamasee Indians out of existence was for fear, that the African slaves they "Did" bring over and all their descendants would be able to link themselves back to the Yamassee and claim all of the land they once owned, it would be the biggest Land Claim, and historical jolt, ever known.
Further verification through history, shows the Yamassee were a lot of times at the lead of rebellions against , many nations, with the Cherokee, Apallachee, Yuchi, Tuscarora , Choctaw, Creek and more by their side!
As a Matter of fact, their lineage connects them to the Sioux, and pretty much all the tribes that exist today!
You can't have hundreds of Towns and villages, lead countless battles, and help your enemies fight with a "Small" band of Natives...It is impossible, because of the lost of life involved!
Whatever the historians tried to accomplish by using the pen to give the illusion of total extinction, also worked against them, because it is through all of their documents that prove they were never extinct!

The Cuban Connection!
What I do see is countless little stories, from hundreds of Yamassee incursions, that have been taken from different times in history, and Blended together to give the " Illusion " of such a brash statement being giving even today by modern so called historian buffs?
Documents show these set of Native Americans (Yamassee ) could have even created a large portion of the Cuban Population. ( Refer to:

Cubans And the Yamassee)
Quote from " The Struggle for the Georgia Coast" " Though research is still ongoing, living descendants of these African-Guale and Guale-Yamassee may yet be discovered in Modern Cuba".

How does that play out for whom the Guale (Gua-la? / Guallah?) were? Well history says they were and (Are) the Yamassee After a certain time period.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guale
Total population
Extinct as tribe
Regions with significant populations
Georgia
Languages
Guale
Religion
Native
Related ethnic groups
Possibly Muskogean peoples: Creek

"Guale was an historic Native American chiefdom along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands. Spanish Florida established its Roman Catholic missionary system in the chiefdom in the late 16th century. During the late 17th century and early 18th century, Guale society was shattered from extensive epidemics of new infectious diseases and warfare from other tribes. Some of the surviving remnants migrated to the mission areas of Spanish Florida while others remained near the Georgia coast. Joining with other survivors, they became known as the Yamasee, an ethnically mixed group that emerged in a process of ethnogenesis.'

Let the correct Spelling Of Yamassee Step Up!
Seems to be very clear and precise to me! But do your own research and see for your self, better yet I Challenge "History Buffs" to get off their Lazy Computer chair butts and just search Yamassee in any Spelling of their choosing in Google books, and see all of the information available hidden in these very resourceful documents!

I mentioned the spelling, because people honestly think the spelling matters, when to be exact the Y did not exist when these people were first encountered so it could have only been spelled with a "J" or something similar.

Upper & Lower Yamassee or Upper & Lower Creek?
The 5 Civilized tribes include the Yamassee...

On this subject I Will let the documents Speak for themselves!
Please refer to Page 27 of the Pdf taken from :
The Us Gov Census:
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890e1-01.pdf

Part 2 of this Information coming Soon!
Go to the Yamassee Nation website or google Yamassee Nation for more information, they are setting the record Straight on their family!

www.yamasseenation.org
or see them on facebook!

Yamassee Indian Nation

2011-05-04T07:06:00.000-07:00

Yamassee tribe of Seminoles

The Yamassee – Tribe

I could never truly give the reader a true depiction of the Yamassee (yimusi) Tribe via a blog; it would take volumes to cover all of the different experiences from all of the bands and clans of the people that made up the Great Yamassee (Seminole) nation. Not only that but also know that there was many yamassee living in different regions in the United states at the same during the same time period within decades.

This is said so that readers can understand that the people known as yamassee was not a small mediocre group of tribal people, but a confederacy that has been documented in many different states and many different memoirs of thousands of colonizers that came to our country. Readers should be aware that there are several scholarly sources that reference the historical presence and contributions of the Yamassee Native American People which have been cited by many archaeological researchers and historians.

Present day Researchers like Denise Bossey have dug up facts & have written books Disproving this theory of complete annihilation. And Some say there was over a Million Yamasee, which explains the Over 200 Towns and Villages they had over the last 500 years of recorded history

One such Author titled a book called

“ The Yamasee: A Supposedly Extinct Southeastern Tribe Rediscovered” by JH Howard

: Page from the book" The Yamassee Not Extinct"

The Yamassee also put up several arguments, and historical documents which shows proof to dispute this claim, and even went as far as Showing present Day Chief's lineage to the Yamassee, who still inhabit Florida & Georgia, in the same Areas the Yamassee were last said to have been disseminated . These present day Yamassee still carry their birth name “Gentle” Which is the word that described the Yamassee.

Excerpt Taken from Google Books:

“Their name, pronounced YAM-uh-see, is thought to mean “gentle.” When Europeans first settled among them—Spanish missionaries in the late 1500s—the Yamasee ...”

http://books.google.com/books?id=WxomdGVLjZ0C&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=gentle+yamasee&source=bl&ots=weqTDGp2kp&sig=UQkWa4fScnY5ANSQ1cIeo0y36GE&hl=en&ei=FAfQTIPZDYXCsAOUvrCCBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=gentle%20yamasee&f=false

Taken from Carolina.com website:

“The meaning of the name Yamasee is unknown, though it has been interpreted by Muskogee yamasi, "gentle." The form given in some early writings, Yamiscaron, may have been derived from a Siouan dialect or from Timucua, as there is no r in any of the Muskhogean tongues. “

Yamassee Native Americans, were described as “Woolly haired” dark “Negro” Indians, whose hair was different as described in Congressional documents held in Congressional archives even today. They were considered “Darker than the Creeks” . Now, to Say our Hair was different (let's see if anyone is paying attention), we obviously did not look like the typical 'Hollywood depicted' Indians, that our Grandmother and Grandfathers grew up watching on TV as young children. The 'Hollywood' Indians that were portrayed in black and white films were played by “White” actors.

Those images were deliberately shown for the sole purpose of having our Great Aunts and Uncles, and Grandmothers, mentally discard any identification with Indian ancestry via self-identity. Our aunts, uncles and grandmothers were to conclude that since they did not resemble what a TV Indian looked like, they must have been either half blood or weren't Indian at all, even though they might have known they had a full blood mother or grandmother identified as Indian. Watch the Movie “Apache” with Burt Lancaster (1954)

It is still designed for us, who as children growing up, watched popular cowboy and Indian movies with well-known actors such as John Wayne. So we would think about what we saw in Black & White movie's & say: “Even though I was Told Grandma or Grand Daddy was told to me to be a full blooded Indian, he didn’t look like the Indians in the movies, so I must be a Freedman or Mix Breed Indian.”

All of that was False Programming! The Media has been used for decades as a form of Psychological Programing. The purpose would be to embed in your mind what you see is true.

Chief / Micco Sekhu Hadjo Gentle

"Yamasee Indians were Negroes, what were known afterwards as the fiercest of the Indians tribes of the South- the well known Yamasee Indians were Africans”

Quote cited from the Congressional serial set United States Government Printing Office 57th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives Document 179 Report of the Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural Labor Washington Government printing Office Year 1901, page 824.

The word “Negro” is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance. The word negro denotes 'black' in the Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the ancient Latin word, niger, 'black', which itself ultimately is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, 'to be dark', akin to *nokw- 'night'.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2000. p. 2039.ISBN 0-395-82517-2.

In the book titled: The Catawba Nation Edited by: Charles M. Hudson

Page 38.

“Moreover, the Conjurer was willing to fight the Savannahs, Yuchi and Appalachee, but he refused to fight the Yamassee because they were “his Ancient people” (Crane 1959: 181)

http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/what-was-the-yamasee-war-and-how-did-the-yamasee-war-start

“ In the early eighteenth century, the English established the colony of South Carolina on the territory of the Yamasee tribe.

The colonists treated the Indians terribly. They stole their land and captured many Yamasee and sent them to the West Indies where they were sold as slaves. By 1715, the Yamasee had had enough. They attacked the English and tried to drive them from their lands.

Order the Yamassee Book here

http://www.yamasseenation.org