The Ais chiefdom consisted of a number of towns, each led by a chief who was subordinate to the paramount chief of Ais; the Indian River was known as the "River of Ais" to the Spanish.
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10 Facts About Ais people
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The Ais language has been linked to the Chitimacha language by linguist Julian Granberry, who points out that "Ais" means "the people" in the Chitimacha language.
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Ais people had already had considerable contact with Europeans by this time.
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Spain eventually established some control over the coast; at the time, the Ais people considered them friends and non-Spanish Europeans as enemies.
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The mission was a success; the Ais people agreed to care for shipwrecked sailors for a ransom, and Mexia completed a map of the Indian River area with their help.
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Shortly after 1700, settlers in the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies started raiding the Ais people, killing some and carrying captives to Charles Town to be sold as slaves.
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The priests assigned to that mission reported the presence of people they called "Santa Luces", perhaps a name for the Ais derived from "Santa Lucia", somewhere to the north of Biscayne Bay.
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Ais people boiled their fish, and ate them from 'platters' of palmetto leaf:.
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Ais people dried some of the berries they gathered for future use:.
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Ais people has little to say on how the women dressed, recording only that his wife and female slaves were given "raw deer skins" with which to cover themselves after their European clothing had been taken away.
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