Extinct? Putting The Puzzle Together

For those who have been interested in learning about who the Yamassee were, and are in present day one can can easily go into your favorite search engine and spend hours trying piece together the information. Through Sites like wikipedia, historical documents, & books we can find the entire picture, and put it back together, piece by piece.

Wikipedia says the Yamasee are extinct?

Yamasee

Total population
Extinct as tribe
Regions with significant populations
United States (Georgia, northern Florida, and South Carolina[1])
Languages
Yamasee language (extinct)
Religion
traditional tribal religion
Related ethnic groups
Tama, Guale,[2] Seminole, Hitchiti,[1] and other Muskogean tribes

One of the reasons for this current confusion is that it comes from the fact that they (the Natives) did not classify each other by names, like the way the colonists did. This explains why researching, one has to look under not just Yamasee, but Yemasee, Yamassee, & Ya'ma-si.



The colonist gave names to groups, or tribes of people based upon how they interacted with them and there land. The names were recorded by many & interpreted from the different factions who encountered them. With each "historian" came his view, his opinion, his rendition.
 
Researching, one can only say it was the attempt of the settlers to try and divide and conquer the indigenous peoples. The colonist convinced them of the advantage of being able to identify each tribe located by regions, then separated them by creating boarders, from their maps of the territory. 

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