Apalachee to 1705
Even before the English and their Creek allies made refugees of the Apalachee
residents, there was growing discord between the Spanish and the natives of
that region. Spanish settlers in Apalachee treated the natives as inferiors
and frequently abused them. Fear augmented the disdain the Apalachee felt toward
the Spanish, as an English-Creek alliance destroyed the mission province and
its inhabitants' way of life in the summer of 1704.