Today, most Seminole speak English. Very few knew how to use the Miccosukee or Creek native language. The Florida Seminole and Oklahoma Seminole tribes exist today with their own law and government. They were the first Native American tribe to open a casino on Indian land. Other tribes followe...
So on July 21, 1957, tribal members voted in favor of a Seminole Constitution which established the federally recognized Seminole Tribe of Florida.In 1970, the Indian Claims Commission award the Seminole (of both Oklahoma and Florida, collectively) $12,347,500 for the land taken from them by...
Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What was the 3rd Seminole War? The Third Seminole War was the final conflict in what is known today as the Seminole Wars. The United States forces wore out most of the remaining Seminole population by search-and-destroy tactics, starving the Seminole out...
Florida has long been a state of migrants. While European colonists quickly decimated the Indigenous population, Florida became home to a Seminole community of Indigenous and enslaved people who migrated from nearby states in the 18th century. Beginning in the late 19th century, residents of Northern...
The Seminoles were a created tribe; in other words, the tribe was formed over the centuries in response to the incursions of the white man. Its origins lay in the 16th century when Spanish explorers probed the Florida peninsula. The slow coalescing of Spanish influence culminated in the found...
Seminole, North American Indian tribe of Creek origin who speak a Muskogean language. In the last half of the 18th century, migrants from the Creek towns of southern Georgia moved into northern Florida, the former territory of the Apalachee and Timucua.