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Seminole tribes generally follow Christianity, both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, and their traditional Native religion, which is expressed through the stomp dance and the Green Corn Ceremony.
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Seminole and tribes
Many items such as squash, tomatoes, corn ( and its derivatives, including grits ), as well as the practice of deep pit barbecuing were inherited from the southeastern American Indian tribes such as the Caddo, Choctaw, and Seminole.
As tribes were relocated, some received land grants in exchange for their former lands, and others ( such as Osage, Seminole, and Chickasaw ) ultimately purchased their land, usually receiving Fee simple title to the land.
* Seminole People, originally from the present-day state of Florida, signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832, in response to the 1830 Indian Removal Act, that forced the tribes to move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
The sheriff of Broward County, where the Indian reservation lies, made arrests the minute the bingo hall opened, and the tribe sued the county ( Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth ), stating that Indian tribes have sovereignty rights that are protected by the federal government from interference by state government.
Eventually the remnants of these tribes would merge with Creek Indians who arrived from the north and become the Seminole Indian tribe.
After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.
The land in what became Logan County had been settled by the Creek and Seminole tribes during the 1820s and 1830s.
During the late 1820s and 1830s, the area was given to the Creek and Seminole tribes after their forced removal from the southeastern United States.
An agreement between the two tribes resulted in this area being part of the Seminole Nation, located west of the Creek Nation.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were relocated to the area from Colorado in 1869, after the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866 had taken the land back from the Creek and Seminole.
After their defeat, many Creek migrated to Indian Territory, while some went into hiding with other resistant Indians in the Southeast, including the Cherokee, and the Seminole and Osceola tribes in Florida.
While the creek may have been tranquil, the next few years saw turmoil as pioneers sought free, fertile land and soldiers held them off while complicated legal issues and land titles with Creek and Seminole tribes were hashed out.
" Federally recognized Seminole tribes today include the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Seminole Tribe of Florida.
The Seminole were a heterogeneous tribe made up of mostly Lower Creeks from Georgia, Mikasuki-speaking Muscogees, escaped African-American slaves, and to a lesser extent, Native Americans from other tribes and even white Americans.
Contemporary southeastern Native American tribes, such as the Seminole and Muscogee Creek, still practice these ceremonies.
Affected tribes included the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.
The forced march of about twenty tribes included the " Five Civilized Tribes " ( Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminole ).
Of the five tribes, the Seminole offered the most resistance, hiding out in the Florida swamps and waging a war which cost the U. S. Army 1, 500 lives and $ 20 million.
Indian tribes such as the Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole all told stories of a creature that stood 5 – 8 feet tall, and gave off a pungent odor.
The only Native American groups not represented in the café are the south eastern tribes such as the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Seminole, many of which supported the United States throughout the tribes ' histories.
Created by the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes prior to the arrival of Europeans, this tourism tradition continues to the present day despite criticism from animal right activists.
Seminole and generally
The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole — that were considered civilized by Anglo-European settlers during the colonial and early federal period because they adopted many of the colonists ' customs and had generally good relations with their neighbors.
" Seminole " is listed as one of the Muskogean languages in Hardy's list, but it is generally considered a dialect of Creek, rather than a separate language ( as she herself comments: Hardy 2005: 70 ; see also Mithun 2005: 462, Crawford ).
As time progressed, the Seminole and Blacks had some intermarriage, but historians and anthropologists have come to believe that generally the Black Seminoles had independent communities.
Seminole and follow
The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole would follow the Muscogee efforts to implement Washington's new policy of civilization.
Seminole and Christianity
A high degree of syncretism exists between Christianity and traditional Seminole religion, and Seminole Christian churches often sing hymns in the traditional languages.
In the 1960s and 1970s, some tribal members on reservations, such as the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, viewed organized Christianity as a threat to their traditions.
A major catalyst for this was the conversion of many Seminole to Christianity, following missionary effort spearheaded by the CreekBaptist evangelist Stanley Smith.
Seminole and both
The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named the " Cow Ford ", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.
The city is located in both Orange and Seminole counties, but predominantly in Orange.
During the colonial years, the Seminole were on good terms with both the Spanish and the British.
Some Seminole families participate in both religions.
Other groups in Florida at the time of the Seminole Wars included " Spanish Indians ", so called because it was believed that they were descended from Calusas, and " rancho Indians ", persons of Native American ancestry, possibly both Calusa and Creek, and mixed Native American / Spanish ancestry, living at Spanish / Cuban fishing camps on the Florida coast.
After the epidemic, both her parents died, and she went to live with her oldest brother John at his ranch at Wewoka, the capital of the Seminole Nation.
The collection includes lithics, ceramics ( both European and Seminole ), glass beads, trade pipe fragments, bottle glass, brick, cut nails and other metal fragments recovered during excavations from 1998-2001.
Florida has counties named for participants on both sides of Second Seminole War: Miami-Dade County is partially named for Francis L. Dade, a Major in the U. S. Army at the time ; Osceola County is named for a Native American resistance leader during the war.
During the Third Seminole War, Berry served with both Capt.
While the children might integrate customs from both cultures, the Seminole believed them to belong to the mother's group more than the father's.
The Seminole Boy's currently hold a state record with 11 consecutive regional play off appearances. In 2010, both Boys and Girls soccer teams became state runner-ups.
The Seminole Warhawk baseball team won both the state and national title in 2001.
Seminole and their
In 1835, the Seminole refused to leave their lands in Florida, leading to the Second Seminole War.
Osceola led the Seminole in their fight against removal.
An exception was made to allow the use of tribal names if approved by that tribe ( such as the Seminole Tribe of Florida's approving use of their name for the team of Florida State University.
In the summer of 1790, McGillivray and 29 other Muscogee chiefs signed the Treaty of New York, on behalf of the ' Upper, Middle and Lower Creek and Seminole composing the Creek nation of Indians ,' ceding a large portion of their lands to the federal government and promising to return fugitive slaves, in return for federal recognition of Muscogee sovereignty and promises to evict white settlers.
Under the leadership of Howard Tommie, the Seminole Tribe of Florida built a large high-stakes bingo building on their reservation near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee ( Creek ), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory ( eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma ).
After removal, some Native Americans remained in their ancient homelands-the Choctaw are found in Mississippi, the Seminole in Florida, the Creek in Alabama, and the Cherokee in North Carolina.
In the end, the government gave up trying to subjugate the Seminole in their Everglades redoubts and left fewer than 100 Seminoles in peace.
In addition to the County Government described above, there are other political entities which are controlled by the County, but have their own appointed boards ; the Seminole County Expressway Authority, the Seminole County Port Authority, the Fred R. Wilson Memorial Law Library and the US 17-92 Community Redevelopment Agency
AAA and Ruth's Hospitality Group have their headquarters in Heathrow, unincorporated Seminole County.
The Seminoles, a tribe of Creeks who assimilated other peoples into their own, made their living in the Everglades region after being forced there by the U. S. military in the Seminole Wars of the 19th century.
As the Seminole were not interested in holding a fort, they returned to their villages.
American squatters and outlaws raided the Seminole, killing villagers and stealing their cattle.
Pottawatomie County was carved out of land originally given to the Creek and Seminole after their forced removal from Georgia and Florida.
Some Seminole leaders had been meeting with Army officers at Depot Key to negotiate their surrender or a retreat to a reservation in the Everglades.
The Seminole interpretation of its name, " High Prairie ", evokes a picture of the grassy plains used by the native Indians coming from the everglades to dock their canoes and display their wares for the newcomers of Miami.
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