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Calusa

A powerful non-agricultural maritime kingdom ruling southwest Florida from Mound Key.

Collapsed under Yamasee-Creek slave raids after 1704; Spain evacuated the last refugees from the Keys to Cuba in 1711.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Calusa — the shape you scrub through changes in 500 BC · 500 · 880 · 1566.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan After a 75-day siege the Aztec capital falls (13 August); the Calusa mortally wound Ponce de León the same year.

Further reading

• The Calusa and Their Legacy Darcie A. MacMahon and William H. Marquardt · 2004

  A history of the Calusa maritime kingdom of southwest Florida and its legacy.

• The Southeastern Indians Charles Hudson · 1976

  The classic synthesis of southeastern Native cultures (broad regional context for the Calusa).

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Sources

• Calusa — Wikipedia