Courses taught by Dr. Bossy and Dr. Ashley at the University of North Florida that focus on the Indigenous history and archaeology of northeast Florida.
Visualizing Indigenous Florida
SPRING 2024
HIS 4936/ANT 4931 - 11 Undergraduate Students
AMH 5934 - 4 Graduate Students
The Indigenous history of our region is little known by the public. Rumors and inaccuracies about in local museums, parks, and classrooms, despite a rich and active scholarship on the Mocamas, Yamasees, and Guales and their ancestors. A particular source of misinformation is a series of late sixteenth-century engravings created a Flemish engraver (Theodor deBry) of local Timucua-speaking Mocamas. These largely fictionalized images are still used by museums, educators, and even scholars--despite their serious problems. Using historical and archaeological materials, we will critique roughly ten of these engravings and partner with Indigenous artists to produce new open-source images. We will make those images and our critiques available on our Digital Humanities site, Indigenous Florida.
