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Meaning of "calusa"
Calusa refers to a Native American tribe that inhabited the southwestern coast of Florida
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- A Native American people who lived on Florida's southwest coast and along its inner waterways.
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Calusa ceremonies included processions of priests and singing women.
Cushing unearthed over a thousand Calusa artifacts.
The Calusa were more powerful in number and political structure.
Cat provides clue to the Calusa tribe.
Calusa people of southern Florida harvested and carved gorgets.
It is said that these clams were relished by Calusa people.
The Calusa lived on the coast and along the inner waterways.
They were supported by the labor of the majority of the Calusa.
We owe the Calusa our lives.
Each year a Christian was required to be sacrificed to appease a Calusa idol.
Calusa Indians founded the settlement and called it Manataca.
The arrival of the Spanish was the beginning of the end for the Calusa.
The Calusa were also able to resist Spanish attempts at conquest.
Some believe that the place has being the ceremonial center of the Calusa Indians.
Been calling Calusa Harbour my home for two years now.
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Menéndez married his sister in order to facilitate relations between the Spanish and the Calusa.
The creature attacked a Calusa village.
The Calusa do exist.
That spring belongs to the Calusa.
The area was originally inhabited by the Calusa Indians and then by the Seminoles.
Ancient America was built surrounding a mound where lies a royal cemetery Calusa Indians.
He recovered several Europeans and a dozen Calusa being held as slaves by Tocobaga.
Culture and Environment in the Domain of the Calusa.
Calusa and de León.
He was attacked by the Calusa.
The Calusa greater.
The Spanish brought with them diseases to which the Calusa had no immunity.
The Calusa village.
Prior to the Calusa.
The Calusa wove nets from palm-fiber cord.
There he made contact with the Calusa tribe, an advanced maritime people.
If the Calusa do still exist, they will show up here sooner or later.
Gone but hardly forgotten, Piecing together elusive Calusa history.
The name may have come from the Calusa language, or possibly, the Timucua language.
Finding the Tequesta unwelcoming, he left to make contact with the Calusa.
Calusa legends, of course.
Some of these first early tribes were the Tocobago, Timucua and the Calusa.
Calusa villages often had more than 200 inhabitants, and their society was organized in a hierarchy.
Before European colonization, the region was dominated by the native Calusa and Tequesta tribes.
It's a picture of the Calusa holding spears, fighting with some type of creature.
Two major tribes eventually formed in and around Everglades ecosystems, the Calusa and the Tequesta.
And if the Calusa still do exist, I'm betting that that creature still exists.
Gasparilla Island 's first known inhabitants were the Calusa Indians.
The Calusa gathered a variety of wild berries, fruits, nuts, roots and other plant parts.
In addition, he explored South Florida and contacted the Calusa tribe.
Indigenous peoples, the Calusa Indians, inhabited the islands nearby.
He calls it " Tanpa " and describes it as an important Calusa town.
The Calusa ( ) were a Native American people of Florida 's southwest coast.
In 1697 Franciscan missionaries established a mission to the Calusa but left after a few months.
Calusa means " fierce people, " and they were described as a fierce, war-like people.
