Seminole

the body of the treaty was that a “…delegation of Seminoles should be sent at the expense of the United States to examine the country to be allotted them among the Creeks, and should this delegation be satisfied with the character of the country and of the favorable disposition of the Creeks to unite with them as one people, then the aforementioned treaty would be considered binding and obligatory upon the parties. And the undersigned Seminole chiefs,

genocide of the Seminole peoples during the First Seminole War. 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

action to further convince the Seminoles to abandon their reservation in central Florida in response to the government’s Indian Removal Act. The letter began with a quote supplied by the [unidentified] Seminole Indian agent pleading on behalf of the Indians themselves who requested federal supplies of corn to supplement the severe drought of the past spring and summer. The secretary recommended that the “prosperous” Creeks could supply corn as an incentive to the Seminoles willing to emigrate to the

kind that you followed into battle. General Zachary Taylor was assigned to relocate this tribe after a major blunder from the previous commander General Thomas M. Jesup. Chief Alligator of the Seminoles a master tactician, stood ready to avenge the death of the previous tribe leader Osceola. The Seminoles were angered by the fact that the Americans were trying to push them out of their lands and relocate them

Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native Americans to present-day Oklahoma. One of the many tribes that was relocated was the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The original Seminoles were given this name because they were Indians who had escaped from slavery in the British-controlled northern colonies. When they came to Florida, they were not called Seminoles they were actually Creeks, Indians of Muskogee derivation. The Muskogean tribes comprised the Mississippian culture which were temple-mound

1. Before the Indian Removal Act was proposed, the Cherokee and Seminoles were adapting to the European culture. They lived in areas in the southeast region of the country with the Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw. They occupied so much land that many white planters wanted it for themselves. Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act to get the Seminoles and Cherokees out of the land. He wanted them to leave so he can use the land for himself. Some Native American tribes moved voluntarily, but the

In the film, Wrestling Alligators (Dir. Andrew Shea, 2016), the lifelong story of Seminole Chief James (Jim) Billie is told through a documentary style piece that involves historical segments with reflection from those involved. The film opens with a segment stating that the Seminole tribe was the only tribe that never signed a peace treaty with the United States, setting a precedent that the tribe is tough and unwilling to be defeated. I believe that Shea’s main message was to portray Chief Billie's

The Ikaniuksalgi, or “the people of the peninsula” (today more commonly 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

traditions of their people. These stories, or proverbs, provide not only a fun story to tell around a campfire, but also have very important meanings to them. The Seminole Tribe of Florida has some of the best stories, and some of the tribe members are still alive to pass along these legends. One could read three stories by a Seminole tribes woman by the name of Betty Mae Jumper. In all three of her stories were a common theme. All of the stories referenced animals and gave them humanistic qualities

prominent Spanish land grant holder in East Florida, in a letter to War Secretary John C. Calhoun related their concerns for the proposed reservation. The location was delineated not to come within fifteen miles of the coast especially to control any Seminole interaction