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Seminole

Lower Creek migrants — 'cimarrones' — filling the lands emptied of Timucua and Apalachee.

By 1800 a distinct people, dominant from the Apalachee hills to Alachua and increasingly independent of the Creek confederacy.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Seminole — the shape you scrub through changes in 1750 · 1783 · 1801 · 1842.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1842 Second Seminole War ends The costliest US Indian war closes; a few hundred Seminoles hold the Everglades, never surrendering.
• 1957 The Unconquered recognized The never-surrendered Florida Seminole win federal recognition (the Miccosukee follow, 1962).

Further reading

• The Seminoles Edwin C. McReynolds · 1957

  A standard history of the Seminole people.

• The Southeastern Indians Charles Hudson · 1976

  The classic synthesis of southeastern Native cultures from which the Seminole emerged (broad regional context).

Sources

• Seminole — Wikipedia