Yamacraw

The Yamacraw were a Native American tribe that has arisen after the Yamasee War in 1730 of a connection between some former Yamasee and Creek Indians. Perhaps the group of Yamasee lived in the years between the war and the emergence of the Yamacraw with the Apalachicola. The origin of the name is unsecured, a statement provides the basis of the mission station Nombre de Dios de Amacarisse in the former settlement of the Spanish colony of Florida.

The settlement area of ​​the Yamacraw is located in the vicinity of the present city of Savannah in the then newly created colony of Georgia in the southeastern United States, with the settlers lived together in the Indians outspoken friendship. It is assumed that the strain has finally allied with the Creek and later moved to Florida.

The tribe played a role in the development of Georgia, of particular importance here was the Chief Tomochichi, a native Creek, who worked closely with the settlers. He was companion of Governor James Edward Oglethorpe on a trip to England and is regarded as a friend of the colony of Georgia.

Today, remember different geographical points, schools, ships of the U.S. Navy and a Yamacraw town in North Carolina to the Yamacraw and their leader, their history and importance of the national memorial Ford Frederica National Monument.