"An exceptional book for popular consumption. . . . It is a wonderful synthesis, and will be avidly read by both professional archaeologists and the general public."--Marvin T. Smith, Valdosta State University

Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creeks.
When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the modern countryside, one that was cooler, drier, and almost twice the size. Thousands of years later European explorers encountered literally hundreds of different Indian groups living in every part of the state. (Today every Florida county contains an Indian archaeological site.) The arrival of colonists brought the native peoples a new world and great changes took place--by the mid-1700s, through warfare, slave raids, and especially epidemics, the population was almost annihilated. Other Indians soon moved into the state, including Creeks from Georgia and Alabama, who were the ancestors of the modern Seminole and Miccosukee Indians.
Written for a general audience, this book is lavishly illustrated with full-color drawings and photographs. It skillfully integrates the latest archaeological and historical information about the Sunshine State's Native Americans, connecting the past and present with modern place-names, and it gives a proud voice to Florida’s rich Indian heritage.

Jerald T. Milanich, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, is the author of Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (UPF, 1995) and Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (UPF, 1994), among numerous other books.

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"Gives readers a personal tour through time, tracing this history of the Florida Indians in a language accessible to everyone." -- St. Petersburg Times
--St. Petersburg Times

"Florida Indians is Milanich at his friendly best, as he distills and summarizes decades of complex scholarship into a couple of hundred readable pages, much as he did in The Timucua last year." -- Florida Times-Union
--Florida Times-Union

"Florida's Indians whets our curiosity and stimulates thought. . . . For anyone looking for a good survey of the Native Peoples of Florida this is an excellent overview." -- Florida Frontier Gazette
--Florida Frontier Gazzette

"One needn't be a specialist to appreciate Florida's Indians, though it may be of most interest to teachers, journalists, students of high-school or college age, or others having an interest in Florida historical topics." -- Stuart News
--Stuart News

"One would be hard-pressed to find a person more qualified to write a general account of the Florida Indians, and he has succeeded brilliantly in producing a readable and accessible book carefully grounded on solid scholarship. Milanich not only relates what is known and believed about the Florida Indians, but he shows how and why we know and think what we do. . . . A delightful, informative, and attractive book, and one that deserves and will doubtless earn a wide readership among scholars seeking an overview of the subject as well as curious general readers."-- Sixteenth Century Journal
--Sixteenth Century Journal