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Topic: Utah War

Jaega

Years: 100 - 1827

The Jaega (also Jega, Xega, Jaece, Geiga, Jobe) are a tribe of Native Americans living along the coast of present-day Martin County and Palm Beach County, Florida at the time of initial European contact, and until the eighteenth century.

Little is known of the origins of the Jaegas, but they may have been a tribe of the Ais people, who occupy the coast to their north.

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who is held captive by tribes in Florida for seventeen years during the sixteenth century, implied that the Ais and the Jaega spoke the same language.

The Jaega are linked to the Ais by marriage between chiefs and their relatives.