The Calusa (/kəˈluːsə/ kə-LOO-sə, Calusa: *ka(ra)luš(i)) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast. Calusa society developed from that...
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Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida. A number of Calusa artifacts...
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Captiva, Florida (redirect from Captiva Island)
" The Calusa Indians used the shells on the island for utensils, jewelry, tools, weapons, and ornaments. By the late 1700s most of the Calusa Indians...
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who lived in the Calusa town of Muspa (on or near Marco Island) were reported to be living in the Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island area. Around 1784...
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and the culture of the Calusa people. Pine Island is also home to Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge. Little Pine Island is a state-owned wildlife...
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Asia. It originally referred only to a single population of Cycas from Calusa Island in Cagayancillo, Philippines. Osborne, R.; Hill, K.D.; Nguyen, H.T....
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Sanibel, Florida (redirect from Sanibel Island)
formed as one island about 6,000 years ago. The first known humans in the area were the Calusa, who arrived about 2,500 years ago. The Calusa were a powerful...
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Collier County, Florida (redirect from Naples – Marco Island, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area)
at Platt Island in the Big Cypress National Preserve shows humans settled in what is now Collier County more than 2000 years ago. The Calusa people had...
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Spanish Indians (section Calusas)
long regarded the Spanish Indians as likely a surviving remnant of the Calusa people. More recent scholarship regards the Spanish Indians as Muskogean...
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Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium is a non-profit environmental education organization in Fort Myers, Florida. Located on 105 acres, the Center includes...
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Pineland, Florida (category Calusa)
center and trail system devoted to the study of the original Calusa settlement at Pineland. Calusa shell mounds and remnants of their canal system are visible...
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home to the Calusa Indians and their ancestors. The 67-acre Pineland Archeological District faces the Sound on the western shore of Pine Island. The Pineland...
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Mound Key Archaeological State Park (category Calusa)
important site of the Calusa tribe, and most experts believe it to be the site of their capital, Calos. The Mound Key Site on the island was added to the U...
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missionaries expelled by the Calusa Chief in 1697 also place Muspa on or near Marco Island. Marco Island is in the Ten Thousand Islands district of the Glades...
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Boca Grande, Florida (category Calusa)
first known inhabitants were the Calusa people. They were living on nearby Useppa Island by 5,000 BC and on Gasparilla Island by 800 or 900 AD. Charlotte Harbor...
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Key Largo (redirect from Key Largo (island))
uninhabited or only sparsely inhabited by indigenous peoples such as the Calusa and the Tequesta. The earliest description of the area and its inhabitants...
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Trochomodulus calusa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Modulidae. Subspecies Trochomodulus calusa calusa (Petuch, 1988)...
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The Great Calusa Blueway is a paddling trail in Florida for kayakers, canoers, paddle boarders and other paddlers. It covers 190 miles meandering through...
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colony in what is now the continental United States. However, the native Calusa people fiercely resisted the incursion, and Ponce de Léon was seriously...
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San Antón de Carlos (category Calusa)
than 20,000 Calusas people of southern Florida in the mid 1500s. He had a large house that held up to 2,000 people on Mound Key, an island created from...
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Everglades (section Calusa and Tequesta)
ago. Before European colonization, the region was dominated by the native Calusa and Tequesta tribes. With Spanish colonization, both tribes declined gradually...
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Chokoloskee, Florida (redirect from Chokoloskee Island)
age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. Chokoloskee Island was inhabited by the indigenous Calusa and their ancestors for more than 1,500 years before...
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ecosystems. From the Archaic peoples, two major tribes emerged in the area: the Calusa and the Tequesta. The earliest written descriptions of these people come...
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exhibit through a re-created scene of a Calusa fishing village as it may have looked about 500 years ago. A young Calusa boy carries home a shark on his shoulder...
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Cagayancillo (redirect from Cagayancillo Island)
It is composed of 31 islands and islets and is politically subdivided into 12 barangays and two island sitios (Cavili and Calusa) included under the political...
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age around 10,000 BC. The Paleo-Indians gave way to the Calusa, the "shell people." The Calusa thrived on the southwest Florida coast and numbered over...
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Company (Portland, Oregon), commonly known as the Swan Island Shipyard, was a shipyard on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was constructed...
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Cape Romano (redirect from Kice Island)
south than Cape Romano Island. The town of Muspa, a sub-chiefdom of the Calusa, may have been located on or near Cape Romano. One Spanish map gave the...
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USS Winooski (AO-38) (redirect from SS Calusa)
Kennebec-class oiler in the United States Navy. Winooski was laid down as Calusa on 23 April 1941 at Sparrows Point, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Steel Company...
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Taíno (redirect from Island Arawak)
Guanahatabeys in the western tip of Cuba, the Island-Caribs in the Lesser Antilles from Guadeloupe to Grenada, and the Calusa and Ais nations of Florida. Guanahaní...
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