The urban development of Spanish colonial Pensacola, 1781--1821 (original) (raw)

Non-Local Natives – Identifying the Native American Groups of Pensacola’s British and Second Spanish Periods

The departure of the missionized Native American population with the Spanish in 1763 emptied Pensacola of the last of its local, resident, Native Population. Various later Creek and Choctaw groups are documented in the region, and we know that both the British colonial government and the subsequent Spanish government both attempted to attract Native Americans to the area. Native American ceramics recovered from features dating to the late colonial periods give us a chance to study what the Native ceramics of this period looked like and to compare them to other late Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw assemblages.