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Florida's Outlaws and Villains

Time: 2:00 pm til 3:30 pm

Location: Collier County Museum Naples, FL

Description: Not everyone that comes to Florida is here for the sunny beaches and plentiful golf courses. Florida has been a refuge for outcasts and scoundrels for centuries. Join us as we list some of the famous and infamous who hailed from or holed up in Florida over the past four hundred years.

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Southwest Florida Archaeological Society Monthly Lecture

Time: 7:00 pm til 9:00 pm

Location: Bonita Springs Community Center

Description: Dr. Brent Weisman will present at the May 18 meeting of the Southwest Florida Archaeological Society on “Spanish Indians and Seafaring Seminoles: Southwest Florida After the Calusa.” The presentation will be held at the Bonita Springs Community Hall at 27381 Old U.S. 41. It is free to the public. The meeting begins at 7:30; coffee and snacks are available at 7:00pm.
Call 239-590-1476 for more information.

Upon the decline and demise of the Calusa chiefdom in the early 1700s, southwest Florida became a cultural frontier for new groups of native people seeking to adapt to a rapidly changing world. As a land of opportunity, a refuge, or simply as a place to get by, southwest Florida became a haven for a culturally diverse mix of people who remain poorly known to historians and anthropologists. This talk will focus on the historical and archaeological evidence for two of these groups, the so-called Spanish Indians and the Seminoles of Pine Island and will examine their links to remnant Calusa and to events contributing to the Second Seminole War.

Brent R. Weisman is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and is the Chair of the Anthrop

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