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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Apalachee
Britannica 11thAPALACHEE (apparently a Choctaw name, = "people on the other side "), a tribe of North American Indians of Muskhogean stock. They have been known since the i6th century, and formerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. About 1600 the Spanish Fran ...
Vol. 2, pp. 158-158
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Apache
Britannica 11thAPACHE (apparently from the Zuni name, = " enemy," given to the Navaho Indians), a tribe of North American Indians of Athapascan stock. The Apaches formerly ranged over southeastern Arizona and south-western Mexico. The chief divisions of the Apaches were the
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Britannica 11th... Seminole origin, and means, it is said, " tribal land. " During a war with the Apalachee Indians in 1638 the Spaniards, according to tradition, fortified a hill W. of the city, where the Fort St Luis Place, a plantation 1 Murat settled here about 1821, became ...
Vol. 26, pp. 372-372
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