Footnote: A clear case of genocide

During the first century of Spanish domination, the population of the Wahale (Guale) Tribe on the coast of Georgia dropped from approximately 20,000 men, women and children to 52 persons, who were transported to a reserve near St. Augustine, Florida. Within a few years afterward, the Wahale ceased to exist.

The Wahale were just one of 12 tribes occupying the Georgia Coast, when the first French colonists mapped that region in detail during 1564-1565. By 1690, the entire Georgia Coast, south of the Ogeechee River to the St. Marys River, was uninhabited. The only remaining Native Americans were a few hundred Uchees, Yamassees and Creeks (Ogeechee) near the mouths of the Ogeechee and Savannah Rivers. They were allies of the English.