Mayaimi

The origin of the Calusa language has not been determined, as the meanings of only ten words were recorded before extinction.

[1] The current name, Okeechobee, is derived from the Hitchiti word meaning "big water".

[2] The Mayaimis have no linguistic or cultural relationship with the Miami people of the Great Lakes region.

They used fishing weirs and ate black bass, eels, American alligator tails, Virginia opossum, terrapins and snakes, and processed coontie for flour.

[5][6] Any survivors were presumed to have been evacuated to Cuba when Spain lost control of Florida in the Treaty of Paris in 1763.