Ais Island Naming
At the time of this writing there is a proposal put forward to the USGS to name the barrier island of Brevard, Ais Island in honor of the Ais Indians that lived there. Many consider this a more historically accurate name than the alternative, Ponce de Leon Island. The Ais Island naming proposal has much public support including organizations such as the AIA.
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“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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