- The
Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were
Native American people who
lived around Lake
Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the
Belle Glade area of
Florida from...
- to
Latin America.
Miami was
named after the
Miami River,
derived from
Mayaimi, the
historic name of Lake
Okeechobee and the
Native Americans who lived...
-
northern and
central Florida, the Ais of the
central Atlantic coast, the
Mayaimi of the Lake
Okeechobee area, the
Tequesta of
southeastern Florida, and...
-
largely migrated by the
middle of the 18th century.
Miami is
named after the
Mayaimi, a
Native American tribe that
lived around Lake
Okeechobee until the 17th...
-
peoples of
southern Florida and the
Tampa Bay area,
including the Tequesta,
Mayaimi, and Tocobaga, as well as the Calusa,
spoke dialects of a
common language...
- is now Lake
Okeechobee as the "Lake of
Mayaimi,
which is
called Mayaimi because it is very large". The
Mayaimi people were
named after the lake around...
-
control also
extended over
other tribes in
southern Florida,
including the
Mayaimi around Lake Okeechobee, and the
Tequesta and
Jaega on the
southeast coast...
- When
Europeans arrived in
Florida in the 16th century, the
Calusa and
Mayaimi tribes resided in
Southwest Florida and
around Lake Okeechobee. In the...
- (River of the Miamis)
Florida Lake Okeechobee, Florida, once
known as
Mayaimi, also
known as Florida's
Inland Sea, a
freshwater lake
Miami Canal in Florida...
-
thriving native po****tion,
which they
categorized into
separate tribes: the
Mayaimi in the Lake
Okeechobee Basin and the
Jaega and Ais
people in the East Okeechobee...
