Guale

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The Guale were an Indigenous people whose homeland was the coast and Sea Islands of what is now Georgia. The Spanish Empire also used the name Guale for a mission province it established there as part of Spanish Florida. Spanish missionaries began arriving in Guale towns in the 1560s. In the two centuries that followed, warfare, enslavement, epidemics, and other pressures of empire forced many Guale people from coastal towns, sometimes more than once. Some survivors went south to mission settlements in Spanish Florida. Others joined the Yamasee and other Indigenous communities. These migrations contributed to ethnogenesis, the formation of new communities from people of different backgrounds. Guale people and their descendants remained part of other communities for generations after the coastal towns dispersed.

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