According to Palm Beach History Online‚“From the Creek phrase ishti semoli‚ Seminole means ‘wild men.’ From the Spanish cimarrone‚ Seminole means ‘runaway.’” The Seminole tribe is a very wild tribe and has many interesting things within their culture. Three of the many interesting things in their culture in their culture is their clothing‚ the techniques and things to hunt‚ and warfare of the Seminole’s. To begin with‚ the Seminole’s have many different ways of making their clothes. Pritzker explains
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The Seminole Indian culture has been expressed in a number of ways‚ including art‚ basketry‚ and beadwork. However‚ did you know that their culture has been shaped for at least 12‚000 years? As this tribe’s culture was formed‚ the Seminole became famous for things as simple as their houses. Their bravery and intelligence became known throughout the United States. As you look within their culture‚ you can’t help but understand why so many people marveled at their simplest items. Even today‚ their
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In her work‚ High Stakes: Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty‚ Jessica Cattelino writes on her studies and observations with the Seminole Indian tribe in south Florida. Within her ethnographic research‚ she analyzes how the Seminole Indians have reconstructed and materialized their sovereignty through tribal gaming. Since the start of American history‚ all Native Indian tribes have fought for their land‚ culture and self-worth. When the United States began to be recognized as its own nation‚ citizens
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The Seminole Wars U.S. History 1301.046 Carissa Farley Professor Rumanuk April 3‚ 2013 The Seminole Wars was one of many wars fought during our nation’s history. Some of the wars in our history were fought over Indian Removal. According to Ron Soodalter‚ “The Second Seminole War erupted over broken treaties that repeatedly changed the boundaries
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Cherokee and Seminole were Indian nations and the way the settlers say it was that they were standing in the way of their progress with acquiring land. When Jackson’s troops invaded Spanish Florida in 1818 the United States gained more partly because of the motivation to punish the Seminoles because they were harboring fugitive slaves. Seminoles waged war to protect their territory. The Seminoles were aided be the fugitive slaves that found protection among them. The First Seminole War lasted from
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the Seminole nation. My part of the presentation was to talk about the brief history of the nation and the interactions it had with other native nations. While I did not find this part necessarily difficult‚ I did learn a lot of new information. For example‚ while researching the Seminole nation‚ I learned how it all started due to pressure from the Upper Creek nation‚ which forced multiple other nations to move to Florida to start a new life (Weisman). Also‚ I did not know how the Seminole nation
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in The Bahamas. A few months after this information came up; John M. Goggin released additional information and offered new insight on the community. The Bahamian Department of Archives published additional documentary evidence in 1980 regarding Seminole Settlements at Red Bays‚ Andros. It took another decade before the link between the Bahamian exiles and the old Florida homes of the slaves was established. Another author offered details where neighboring Cuban fishermen identified a community with
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negroes consisting of Seminoles‚ Tallahassees‚ and a few Mickasukies left in the territory.” The remaining Florida Indians moved deeper into the Everglades. The few remaining Seminole in the Everglades were led by Billy Bowlegs‚ who under heavy political pressuring from both the Oklahoma Seminole and the federal government agreed to move westward with most of his followers in 1858. The successor to Bowlegs in Florida‚ Surnucka Micco‚ who became leader of the remaining Seminole in the Everglades‚ and
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Canter Brown Jr. wrote Tales of Angola to show the strong history of Free Blacks‚ Seminoles‚ Red Stick Creek in Southwest Florida and what happened to them. Their a focus on southwest maroon communities and their survival. The expression of their struggle and the havoc felt by these people are brought to light in this section .It tells a story of the forgotten ‚that were destroyed by the United States government‚and how some of them escaped. A significant black community existed in Florida‚ the
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because as a rule the Seminoles never allowed intermarriage with whites. Osceola’s great grandfather was James McQueen who was the first white man to trade with Creeks in Alabama in 1714 and he stayed there as a trader and Indian leader for the next 80 years. In 1814 Osceola and his mom moved to Florida with the other Creeks where he received his adult name. It was also there in Florida where Osceola became a Seminole war chief. He led a small band of warriors in the Second Seminole War when the U.S
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