The Macbeths
They were the native tribe of prehistoric North Central Florida. When Europeans arrived in Florida, sweeping out prehistory before them and towing history in their wake, the natives had been here for at least twelve thousand years. To the armed European businessmen, the natives' prior claimancy was ill established. Consequently, when the Spanish failed to secure written documentation of ownership from the illiterate residents, European custom allowed them to begin an inventory of everything within sight.
As one consequence of that inventorying, the previously mentioned native tribe became the Timucua, for cataloguing purposes. No one knows what the people called themselves. The name "Timucua" is rumored to have been the advice of an Atlantic coast Timucua who, feeling some animosity toward his inland kin, pointed an armed Spanish delegation westward, indicating the land of "Timucua." Apart from this piece of folklore and an oblique historical reference, we do know that the sound made in pronouncing "timucua" closely resembles the native word for "enemy." It's not what they would have called themselves, obviously, but they are apparently extinct and unable to correct the misnomer.
The Spanish saw the Timucuan as primitive, not quite human. Certainly, by modern standards, social interaction between native tribes, largely trade by war, seems primitive; but it's important to remember that this was also the standard European method for international trade.
In all, it took about 200 years, from the mid-14th to the mid-16th century, for the Spanish to complete the extermination of the Timucua people. When the Spanish left Florida, harried by the advance of the British and French forces into northern La Florida, they took the few remaining Timucua with them as slaves to Cuba. It was in Havana where the last known Timucua, the half Spanish Juan Alonso Cabale, died in 1767.
