- is
named after the
Miami River,
which derived its name from Lake
Mayaimi. The
Mayaimis built ceremonial and
village earthwork mounds around Lake Okeechobee...
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northern and
central Florida, the Ais of the
central Atlantic coast, the
Mayaimi of the Lake
Okeechobee area, the
Tequesta of
southeastern Florida, and...
- 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...
- Dade and Miami,
derived from the
Miami River, and
ultimately derived from
Mayaimi County seat and
largest city
Miami Incorporated muni****lities 34 Government...
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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...
- boat') Old
Turkic kayguk << Proto-Turkic kay- ("to slide, to turn")
Mayaimi Mayaimi (Big water)
Hebrew מים
mayim ("water") ****anese ありがとう arigatō ("thank...
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control also
extended over
other tribes in
southern Florida,
including the
Mayaimi around Lake Okeechobee, and the
Tequesta and
Jaega on the
southeast coast...
- the
region dating back
thousands of years, with Ais, Calusas, Jaegas,
Mayaimis, and
Tequesta settling in or near modern-day Palm
Beach County. A complex...
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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...
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people to have
lived around the lake were the Calusa. They
called the lake
Mayaimi,
meaning "big water", as
reported in the 16th century, by
Hernando de Escalante...
