Seminole

Who is a Seminole and who decides? Today, Abraham may not qualify to be a citizen of his own nation, one he fought so hard to create. The modern practice is for Indian nations to have Constitutions to address citizenship. The Seminole Nation may have had its nationhood status helped from the promises in Jesup’s Capitulation, and despite Creek and federal pressures that considered Seminoles part of the greater Creek nation. Abraham fought and negotiated valiantly to see recognition of such autonomy

campaign, war was waged with the Seminole nation with nothing to show and no progress made by the United States. General Gaines from Louisiana and over 1,000 men were held at the Withlacoochee River for ten days before quitting the field from 300 Seminoles. General Scott arrived with 5,000 men in March but spent months searching in the swamps getting raided by the tribes and loosing men and resources. Governor Richard had several thousand men, chased the Seminole Indians into their strongholds to

The Seminole "As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the Seminole is a 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

Before the three Seminole wars that resulted in migration, they were a tribe native to Florida. They had once been four distinct groups known as the Creek, Miccosukee, Hitchiti, and the Oconee and to protect each other they assimilated to each other’s cultures and became known as the Seminole Indians (Seminole Indian Fact Sheet, Bigorrin.org). They lived off hunted animals and other aquatic life found in Florida’s abundant waterways and built their homes out of poles and thatched roofs called chickees

The Seminoles mistake was even engaging in the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. The force that was being pursued by Colonel Taylor was only a part of the Seminole nation that was on the move. They were going to merge with King Philip’s tribe and continue south to the Everglades and into the Florida Keys if necessary. Losing their resources crippled their ability to move swiftly and sustain themselves through the winter and summer months cost them dearly. The Indians had available to them the use of scouts

The First Seminole War was the first of three conflicts in the early 19th century that involved the United States Army and the Seminole population in Florida. At the time, Florida was still under the control of Spain. Most of its population consisted of the Seminole Native Americans and African Americans. The dates of the First Seminole War are debated but most believe that it occurred between 1816 and 1818. This war took place after the War of 1812 and tensions were still high between the United

can relate to this is the second Seminole War which first began in the 19th century. This war started because of discrimination over the Native American people and the drive to have them relocate for their land. After many attempts and one war before the second seminole war America realized they really need to demand changes and take action. The European Americans, American government and President Andrew Jackson felt that it was necessary to relocate the Seminoles from North of Lake Okeechobee to

The events leading up to the Second Seminole War remain some of the most perverse and contentious proceedings to have occurred in American history. Between 1819, the ending of the First Seminole War, and 1835, the beginning of the Second, the United States government did everything within its power to not only remove the Natives Americans from its borders, but did so through seditious and deceptive legislature. It was during this time that the expansion of the power of the president and a complete

In order to understand the significance of the Second Seminole War, one must first examine the First Seminole War. Frustrated with Seminole protection of runaway slaves, Andrew Jackson and more than three thousand men entered northern Florida in 1816 and began to decimate Seminole populations. Despite most of these campaigns being unsanctioned by the United States government and protested by the British and the Spanish, Jackson was received as a war hero throughout the nation. The Adam-Onis Treaty

University named itself the Seminoles. They did this in order to show the strength of and the pride in the Seminole heritage of Florida. Contributions of a lesser known African American, John Horse, helped to define the Seminole people as the “unconquered people” that they are so celebrated for in Florida today. While we all known that a Seminole is a member of the Native American nation of people, many don’t know that there were Black Seminoles. Prior to being called Black Seminoles, they were actually