Tocobaga is the name of a group of Native Americans who lived in chiefdoms along the middle Gulf coast of the Florida peninsula at the time of European contact in the 16th century. It was also the name of the most important of those chiefdoms (the largest town) and of the chief of that chiefdom. The Tocobaga had a few brief contacts with Spanish explorers, but were little affected by the contact. The Tocobaga declined severely in the 17th century and disappeared early in the 18th century. The To… (More on Tocobaga)