Yamasee

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In Yamasee War
…conflict between Indigenous Americans, mainly Yamasee, and British colonists in the southeastern area of South Carolina, resulting in the collapse of Indigenous power in that area. Embittered by settlers’ encroachment upon their land and by unresolved grievances arising from the fur trade, a group of Yamasees rose and killed 90…
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In Native American: Queen Anne’s War (1702–13) and the Yamasee War (1715–16)
…in which an alliance of Yamasee, Muscogee, and other tribes fought against English expansion. Their resistance was ultimately unsuccessful, and some of the refugees fled south to Florida, where their descendants later joined with others to found the Seminole nation. The Yamasee War inspired the Muscogee to take a neutral…
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