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The Apalachee are a Native American people who historically lived in the Florida Panhandle. They lived between the Aucilla River and Ochlockonee River, at the head of Apalachee Bay, an area known to Europeans as the Apalachee Province. They spoke a Muskogean language called Apalachee, which is now extinct.
The Apalachee occupied the site of Velda Mound starting about 1450 CE, but had mostly abandoned it when Spanish started settlements in the 17th century. They first encountered Spanish explorers in the 16th century, when the Hernando de Soto expedition arrived. Traditional tribal enemies, European diseases, and European encroachment severely reduced their population. The survivors dispersed, and over time many Apalachee integrated with other groups, particularly the Creek Confederacy, while others relocated to other Spanish territories, and some remained in what is now Louisiana. About 300 descendants in Rapides and Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, assert an Apalachee identity today.
The Apalachee are a Native American people historically of Florida, and now living primarily in Louisiana.
Apalachee may also refer to:
- Apalachee Province, an area of what is now the Florida Panhandle historically inhabited by the Apalachee
- Apalachee Bay, a bay of the Gulf of Mexico
- Apalachee River (Alabama), a river in the U.S. state of Alabama
- Apalachee River (Georgia), a river in the U.S. state of Georgia
- Apalachee (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
Apalachee (1971–1996) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from August 1973 until May 1974 he ran five times and won four races. In 1973 he was unbeaten in three starts including the Racing Post Trophy and was officially rated the best two-year-old in Britain and Ireland. In the following year he won on his debut but finished third to Nonoalco in the 2000 Guineas and never raced again. He was then retired to stud where he had some success as a sire of winners before his death at the age of twenty-five.
Usage examples of "apalachee".
Decker had always thought the newspaper might have rehired him after Apalachee if only Levon Bennett wasn't in the same Sunday golf foursome as the executive publisher.
At Apalachee he'd met a very nice doctor doing four years for Medicare fraud, who gave him the name of an insurance company that needed an investigator.
Sweep southward along the teeming lagoons of Georgia, cross Apalachee Channel, and find Ocala Island.
The ex-governor was skinning out a dead fox he'd scavenged on the Apalachee Parkway.