Description
The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees, Yemasees or Yemassees) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida. The Yamasees engaged in revolts and wars with other native groups and Europeans living in North America, specifically from Florida to North Carolina. After the Yamasees migrated to the Carolinas, they began participating in the Indian slave trade in the American Southeast. They raided other tribes to take captives for sale to European colonists.
Language
Muskogean
Culture
The Yemassee Tribe canoes and homes are made out of palmetto fronds. Oyster shells for spears and knives and animal skins to wear as clothing. Animal skins and bark makes a great structure for wigwams. Sea grass also makes clothing and baskets. The Yemassee Tribe had fished in the Savannah River and the coastlines of South Carolina and Florida for the native fish in the Savannah River and along the coast lines in both South Carolina and Florida. The Yemassee also hunted deer and bears and they used all parts of the animals that they killed.