Pensacola people

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The Pensacola people were a Native American group of the Gulf Coast region, historically associated with what is now the western Florida Panhandle and nearby areas.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Pensacola culture 1
Pensacola people canonical 1

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Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people of North America
affectedBy European diseases
colonial warfare
slave raids
associatedWithBodyOfWater Gulf of Mexico
associatedWithSettlement Pensacola Bay
conflictWith Spanish colonists
country United States
culturallyRelatedTo Apalachee people
Biloxi people
Choctaw people
Creek people
linked to: Muscogee people

Mobile people
economy fishing
hunting and gathering
small-scale agriculture
encountered Spanish explorers
Tristán de Luna y Arellano
encounteredYear 1559
ethnicGroupOf Gulf Coast region
eventualFate assimilation into other Native groups
dispersal from ancestral lands
gaveNameTo Pensacola Bay
Pensacola, Florida
inhabitedRegion Gulf Coast
Mobile Bay area
linked to: Mobile Bay

northwestern Florida
western Florida Panhandle
languageFamily Muskogean languages
notableFor early contact with Spanish Florida expeditions
eponym of Pensacola region
regionType Gulf Coast tribe
religion Native American traditional religion
resultedIn population decline
status historical tribe
timePeriod early colonial period
pre-Columbian era

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southeastern Woodlands includesPeople Pensacola people
Bottle Creek Mounds associatedWith Pensacola culture
linked to: Pensacola people