[Aztlan] INSTITUTE OF MAYA STUDIES OCTOBER MEETINGS

[michael ruggeri]

Wednesday, October 17, 8 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
“The Apalachee Indians of North Florida” with Juan Riera, B.A., M.A.
At the Institue of Maya Studies, affiliated with the Florida Science  
Museum, 3280 Souh Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33129

In about 1100 AD, agriculture became important in the area that  
became the Apalachee domain. This area was part of the Fort Walton  
Culture, the Florida sub-culture of the Mississippian culture with  
their capital as Anhaica. The Apalachee lived in Apalachee Province,  
Florida until the tribe was largely destroyed and dispersed in the  
18th century. They lived between the Aucilla River and Ochlockonee  
River, at the head of Apalachee Bay, and were first encountered by  
Spanish explorers in the 16th century. The Apalachee spoke a now- 
extinct Muskogean language (Hitchiti), documented by letters written  
in the Spanish Colonial period. Other Florida Indians regarded them  
as being wealthy and fierce and the Appalachian Mountains were named  
after them.

For additional information please visit: http://mayastudies.org or  
call the Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
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October 24, 2007
Tribal Arts Society Lecture, 7:30 PM
“Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King”  
with Dr. William Keegan
The scheduled program, The Marvelous Maya, Part III “Reading the Maya  
Record” a workshop with Dr. Anne Stewart, has been postponed due to  
member interest in this Tribal Arts Society presentation. Lecturer  
Dr. William Keegan is curator of Caribbean Archaeology at the Florida  
Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology and Latin  
American Studies at the University of Florida. IMS members are  
encouraged to attend the Tribal Arts Society meeting at the Lowe Art  
Museum on the University of Miami campus. For non-Tribal Arts  
members, the fee is $10.

For additional information please visit: http://mayastudies.org  or  
call the Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192