hearing about the colusa indians who lived along southwest florida's coast for 1500 years. tame're here at the site of pa. we are standing 150 miles south of modern day tampa. there is a well known map that shows the native placee.

hearing about the colusa indians who lived along southwest florida's coast for 1500 years. tame're here at the site of pa. we are standing 150 miles south of modern day tampa. there is a well known map that shows the native place name. the largest of the colusa towns. it was one large big community including one in a sterile day and the other at big mound key. the coastal -- colusa were controlling many other towns but there was a mapmaker in the name tempe and the got shifted to where it is presently located. highland onhere at the shore of an estuary. it is placed wherever freshwater saltwater mix. this is to the north of the peace river and the myakka river . the produce one of the most productive habitats. it supports mangrove and seagrass systems. it was the system that the colusa and their land -- ancestors used to achieve great success. by understanding the natural history of the estuary and the natural history of the organisms about live their archaeologists have been able to understand the pass of the people who first settled here i want hundred a.d. and there is n