Speaking of "The Thanksgiving We Don’t Talk About". The Timucua, who Dad mentions in passing, were the local population inhabiting that now is northern Florida and southeast Georgia. When the conquistador Pedro Menendez de Aviles "discovered" what he thought was an island he named La Florida in 1565, the Timucua population was estimated at 200,000. By 1595 that number was 50,000. In year 1700 that number was less than 1,000. They now are completely extinct. Happy Thanksgiving! Another in a near-endless list of Catholic contributions to the "New World".
Speaking of "The Thanksgiving We Don’t Talk About". The Timucua, who Dad mentions in passing, were the local population inhabiting that now is northern Florida and southeast Georgia. When the conquistador Pedro Menendez de Aviles "discovered" what he thought was an island he named La Florida in 1565, the Timucua population was estimated at 200,000. By 1595 that number was 50,000. In year 1700 that number was less than 1,000. They now are completely extinct. Happy Thanksgiving! Another in a near-endless list of Catholic contributions to the "New World".