[[Native Americans]] who originally lived in coastal village and towns in what are now South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/De Soto|Hernando de Soto]] traveled through their territory in 1540, visiting the village of [Altamaha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamaha_chiefdom "Altamaha chiefdom") and probably spreading European diseases there. In the 1570s the Spanish established missions in Yamasee lands, which may also be associated with their migrations in the 16th century. In 1687, the Spanish tried to capture Yamasee people and send them to the [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Caribbean]] as [[Slavery|slaves]]. This caused them to move again, into the recently-established colony of [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Carolina]]. This is a reminder that native peoples were not always encountered by colonists in their original, ancestral lands, but had often been forced by circumstances to change their social organizations and locations. This applies to conflicts as well: if not for the previous two centuries of their experiences of Spanish and later English colonialism, the Yamasee might not have been anywhere near Charles Town when they attacked it in 1715, setting of two years of the [[Yamasee War]].