Calusa Indians and Tequesta Indians

Where were the Calusa Indians from?

• Africa

• Southwest coast of Florida

• In South Florida near Miami

• New Smyrna Beach

What does Calusa mean?

• Caring people

• Friendly people

• fierce people

• shell people

When did Spanish explorers write home about the Calusa Indians?

• 2024

• 1452

• 1800

• 1513

Which one describes the home of the Calusa Indian?

• They lived in teepees

• Built homes on stilts and wove Palmetto roofs, without walls.

• They lived inside of shells

• They did not have homes of any kinds because they lived in trees.

What did the Calusa Indians do for food?

• They gathered coco plums, sea grapes, and berries. They hunted bears, deer, wild bore and small animals.

• They grew corn and hunted deer and other small animals.

• They fished for food off the coast, they used spears to catch turtles and eels. They also hunted deer.

• They traveled with the buffalo and hunted buffalo

When did the Calusa tribe die out and what was the cause?

• In the late 1700s from being captured and sold as slaves as well as from diseases such as smallpox and measles

• They all sadly died from Covid in 2020.

• They died from a huge war against the Tequesta tribe.

• They died from scurvy from a lack of vitamin C.

Where were the Tequesta Indians located?

• Southwest Florida

• In New Smyrna Beach

• In New York and Pennsylvania

• In South Florida near Biscayne Bay in the present day Miami area.

What did the Tequesta Indian do for food?

• They relied on fishing and only ate fish and things they could gather from the waters.

• They were vegetarians and did not hunt. They only ate fruit and vegetables.

• They grew corn and other crops for survival.

• They relied on fish, shellfish, nuts, and berries. They hunted animals like bears, deer, and wild boar, and small mammals.

How did the Tequesta Indians respond to European settlers?

• They forced them to North Florida so they could keep control of South Florida

• They fought them and forced the Europeans to leave.

• At first, they were unwelcome, but they Europeans won their friendship by bringing gifts.

• They immediatly became best friends and welcomed them all.

What did the Tequesta Indians use for tools?

• shells

• shells and shark teeth

• animal bones

• they never used tools