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Calusa
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Ca·lu·sa  (k-ls)
n. pl. Calusa or Ca·lu·sas
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the southwest coast of Florida from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys. The Calusa were extinct by the mid-18th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The extinct language of the Calusa, of unknown linguistic affiliation.

[Calusa, fierce people (sense uncertain); perhaps akin to Choctaw kallo, strong.]


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95 "Eyes of the Calusa" by Holly Moulder is the story of Mara, a Calusa Indian from the southwest coast of Florida, who is captured by pirates and sold into slavery.
95 Set at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Eyes of the Calusa is a chapter book for young adults about Mara, a young girl of Florida's native Calusa Indians, who is kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery amid the lowlands of South Carolina.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whoever he was, the Indian knew enough about bearded men in metal hats to advise the local Calusa Indians that they had better waste no time in attacking the Spanish ships, and after two days of skirmishing, Ponce de Leon decided Florida wasn't worth the trouble and pulled up his anchors and left.
 
 
 
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