Yamassee Indian Nation

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The Yamassee also put up several arguments, and historical documents which shows proof to dispute this claim, and even went as far as Showing present Day Chief's lineage to the Yamassee, who still inhabit Florida & Georgia, in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.

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