Missions in Spanish Florida
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Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established missions in Spanish Florida in order to convert the indigenous tribes to Roman Catholicism, to facilitate control of
Franciscan missionaries in California
Timucua
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The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia. They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35 chiefdom
One of the engravings based on Jacques le Moyne's drawings, depicting Athore, son of the Timucuan chief Saturiwa, showing René Laudonnière a monument placed by Jean Ribault
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve and Fort Caroline National Memorial
Timucuan village and inhabitants depicted on a painting in the United States Capitol