Icafui

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title: "Icafui" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["timucua", "indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas"] description: "American indigenous people" topic_path: "general/timucua" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icafui" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American indigenous people ::

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Field	Value
group	Icafui
native_name_lang	tjm
image	Map of the Timucua Chiefdoms of Mainland Southeast Georgia.svg
image_caption	A map of the Timucua chiefdoms of mainland southeast Georgia, including the Icafui (orange).
population	Extinct as tribe
regions	Southeastern inland Georgia
languages	Timucua language, Itafi dialect
religions	Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Christianity
related	Timucua
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| group = Icafui | native_name_lang = tjm | image = Map of the Timucua Chiefdoms of Mainland Southeast Georgia.svg | image_caption = A map of the Timucua chiefdoms of mainland southeast Georgia, including the Icafui (orange). | population = Extinct as tribe | regions = Southeastern inland Georgia | pop1 = | ref1 = | languages = Timucua language, Itafi dialect | religions = Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Christianity | related = Timucua The Icafui (also Ycafui, Icafi, Ycafi) people were a Timucua people of southeastern Georgia, who were closely related if not synonymous with the Cascangue people. Exceptionally little is known about the Icafui, other than their general location and the fact that they spoke a dialect of Timucua called "Itafi" along with the Ibi.

The Icafui are described living on the mainland east of the Ibi, Yufera, and Oconi, which would correspond to a homeland on or not far inland from the Georgia coast between the mouths of the Satilla and Altamaha Rivers. This region is associated with Savannah-culture artifacts. Deagan specifically narrows this range to the mainland opposite to Jekyll Island, with a northern boundary in the vicinity of the Turtle River.

The villages of Xatalano, Heabono, Aytire, Lamale, Acahono, Tahupa, Punhuri, Talax, Panara, Utayne, and Huara are named as settlements "of the pine forests of the interior lands who are subjects of Doña Maria (of Tacatacuru on Cumberland Island)" which may have been affiliated with the Icafui, but could also have been Mocama.

During the Spanish colonial period, the Icafui did not receive a mission of their own, but interacted with Mocama missions such as San Pedro de Mocama. The tribe is not mentioned post 1604, and was likely destroyed or displaced by the Yamasee in the early 17th century.

References

References

1. Jerald T. Milanich, ''The Timucua'' (1996; repr., Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1999), 49.
2. John E Worth, ''The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida: Assimilation'', vol. 1 (University Press of Florida, 1998), 58–60.
3. Kathleen A. Deegan, “Cultures in Transition: Fusion and Assimilation among the Eastern Timucua,” in ''Tacachale'' (University Press of Florida, 2017), 97–98.
4. Julian Granberry, ''A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language'', 3rd ed. (University of Alabama Press, 1993), 7.
5. Jerald T. Milanich, “‘A Very Great Harvest of Souls’: Timucua Indians and the Impact of European Colonization,” in ''Anthropology, History, and American Indians: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant'' (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002), 116.
6. John H. Hann, ''A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions'' (University Press of Florida, 1996), 11.

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