15 Facts About Guale

Guale was a historic Native American chiefdom of Mississippian culture peoples located along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands.

Early claims that the Guale spoke a Muskogean language were questioned by the historian William C Sturtevant.

Guale has shown that recorded vocabulary, which sources had believed to be Guale, was Creek, a distinct Muskogean language.

The Guale are believed to have been a Mississippian culture group that had a chiefdom along what is the Georgia coast in the early period of Spanish exploration.

Archaeological studies indicate that the precursors of the historically known Guale lived along the Georgia coast and Sea Islands, from at least 1150 AD.

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The Guale maintained good relations with the ephemeral French settlement known as Charlesfort on Parris Island in what is South Carolina.

The Guale territory became one of the four primary mission provinces of Spanish Florida; the Timucua, Mocama, and Apalachee Provinces, named after the resident tribes of the territories, were the others.

Boundaries of the Spanish Guale Province corresponded to the people's territory along the Atlantic coast and Sea Islands, north of the Altamaha River and south of the Savannah River.

Guale was the least stable of the four major mission provinces.

The Guale rebelled again 1645, nearly shaking off the missions.

Guale Indians were forced to work under the Europeans in ways they never had had to before.

Various non-Guale Indians settled in or near the Guale missions during the 17th century.

The Indians of Guale Province moved mostly to the Apalachee or Apalachicola regions.

Around or before 1684, one small group of Yamasee-Guale refugees, led by Chief Altamaha, moved north to the mouth of the Savannah River.

Guale were the majority in the Upper Towns, although other ethnicities were incorporated as well.