The Florida Indians

Case Note Assignment MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS OF SOUTH FLORIDA, etc., vs. CARLOS BERMUDEZ, et al., Professor Stephen Davis, Esquire Legal Environment in Business (BUL-6810) Florida International University Jonathan R.Vazquez MBA Candidate Florida International University October 6th, 2014 Order Date: July 2, 2014. Case Description: Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of South Florida, etc., vs. Carlos Bermudez, et al., Case Citation: Jacobson v. Sklaire, 92 So. 3d 228 (Fla

History Paragraph The four main indian tribes of Florida are the Apalachee, Timucua, Calusa, and Ais. These tribes are unique in their location, food, and shelters they built. Found in Northwest Florida, the Apalachee, a farming people, primarily ate corn, beans, and squash, but their men also hunted for deer, bear, and other small game. They lived in round thatched houses on large mounds of earth built in well dispersed villages. The Timucua of Central Florida were a tribe of skilled hunters and

referred to as the Seminoles), arrived in Florida late in the eighteenth century. Although Florida and the Seminoles have been linked for almost three centuries, the origins of the Seminoles lie in part in the Creek Confederacy that migrated to Spanish Florida from Alabama and Georgia. Even though other Indians had inhabited the peninsula, European diseases and wars along with rival southeastern Indians devastated the aboriginal population. Those few Indians who survived allied for the most part with

tribe made up of Indians from many tribes."  (Garbarino 13)  The Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America.  They lived in what is now Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi.  The Seminole had a Muskogean language of the Hokan-Siouan stock.  (Bookshelf)  The Indian tribes found in the southeast were the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Yuchi, Yamassee, Apalachicola, Timucua, and Calusa.  The southeastern Indians were described by

This caused outrage among various political factions in Florida, whether from the actual participants, who claimed to have been tricked, to those who claimed they were not represented, and those Indians who did not identify as Seminole. It became apparent that many of the Seminoles had no intention of leaving Florida. “Implementation of the treaty broke down. The Seminoles understood that the agreement would not go into effect until a

Jackson’s racist perception of the Seminole Indians was the result of his experiences fighting Indians during the Creek War, which resulted in his larger national mandate to remove the Seminole from their land for European settlers to inhabit. The First Seminole war defined the overarching genocide against the Seminole peoples through Jackson’s leadership of the United States Army, which took lands and relocated the Seminole to the interior of Florida. In this manner, Jackson’s white supremacy became

Court determined that the framers of the Constitution did not really consider the Indians as foreign nations but more as "domestic dependent nation[s]" and consequently the Cherokee Nation [as any other tribe] lacked the standing to sue as a "foreign" nation. Justice Marshall also said; "The court has bestowed its best attention on this question, and, after mature deliberation, the majority is of the opinion that an Indian tribe or nation within the United States is not a foreign state in the sense of

to their third Super Bowl title.  All across the eastern seaboard, sports fans were tasting success - while American Indians were in an uproar.  This year witnessed the peak of the protests over the use of mascots with American Indian themes.  With two of the major professional sports teams in question making front-page news across the country, many of us heard American Indians' complaints for the first time.  Suddenly, thanks to the cries of thousands of demonstrators, the names of many Americans'

Mission San Luis historical site located in Tallahassee,Florida. It was a home to the Apalachee Indians. The Apalachee Indians were some of the most advanced tribes in all of Florida. They grew several crops such as maize and squash. Women did most of the farming, while men hunted and children grew up learning right beside them. The Apalachee were a very organized society. In 1497, John Cabot sailed to the Florida peninsula. Sixteen years later, Juan Ponce de Leon of Spain traveled to North America

Andrew Jackson: Conqueror of Florida In the early 1800’s, Spain had little control of their territory south of the border of the American border, Florida. Indian tribes often raided towns in Southern American, then back to Florida to safety. America’s new mission was to seize Florida from Spain in order to protect itself from further attack. It seems that the tough and volatile Andrew Jackson was the only one to do it. Jackson’s nickname, Old Hickory, was fitting. Hickory was long held as the