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Seminole - Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They separated (their name means "separatist") from the Creek in the early 18th cent. and settled in the former territory of the Apalachee in Florida. They gradually grew in strength, absorbing many runaway black slaves and the

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The Seminoles of Florida » Read Now
by James W. Covington. 379 pgs.

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The Seminoles » Read Now
by Edwin C. McReynolds. 402 pgs.

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...Treaty of Paris, and home of the Seminole Indians. Bartram had traveled by boat...thus placed Florida and the Seminole Indians in British hands. The new owners...vaguely...
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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians » Read Now
by Brent Richards Weisman. 174 pgs.

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Explains when & how Seminole & Miccosukee culture was formed & how it has withstood historical challenges & survived in the face of pressures from the modern world.
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Like Beads on a String: A Culture History of the Seminole Indians in Northern Peninsular Florida » Read Now
by Brent Richards Weisman. 198 pgs.

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The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism » Read Now
by Patsy West. 152 pgs.

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Early in this century, the Native Americans known as the Florida Seminoles struggled to survive in an environment altered by the drainage of the Everglades & a dwindling demand for hides. The author describes how they turned to tourism & discovered another marketable commodity - their own culture...
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Early in this century, the Native Americans known as the Florida Seminoles struggled to survive in an environment altered by the drainage of the Everglades & a dwindling demand for hides. The author describes how they turned to tourism & discovered another marketable commodity - their own culture. Ironically, she shows, it was the reticent Mikasuki-speaking Seminoles (who call themselves i:laponathli:) who developed the tourist market so successfully. By the 1930s virtually all of the Florida Indian population was engaged in the business. They participated in fairs & expositions in Chicago, New York, & Canada. In large commercial Seminole villages in Miami & Ocala, the antigovernment i:laponathli: sewed brightly colored patchwork, wrestled alligators, & opened their palm-frond chickees to the public, attractions that visitors to the state have enjoyed for much of this century. Though their exhibition economy originally was condemned by the government, it provided income for families as well as a lasting cultural identity for the people. Today, the Seminole Tribe of Florida & the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida promote their tourist activities to worldwide markets as "cultural heritage & ecotourism." Illustrated with 30 evocative photographs, the author's book supplies an original & colorful social & economic history of an unconquered people. Often told in the words of the many Seminoles whom the author interviewed, this book is the only one available on the topic of the cultural tourism activities of an Indian tribe.
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Seminole Music » Read Now
by Frances Densmore. 223 pgs.

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...first trip to the Seminole in Florida was...January 1931, and the Indians observed were from...determined to move the Indians west, and the Seminole war was their...
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Pelts, Plumes, and Hides: White Traders among the Seminole Indians, 1870-1930 » Read Now
by Harry A. Kersey Jr. 160 pgs.

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Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture (Chap. 10 "Florida Seminoles and the Marketing of the Last Frontier") » Read Now
by S. Elizabeth Bird. 321 pgs.

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The essays that comprise this volume examine the distortions and fabrications that white culture has imposed on historical and current events in its representation of American Indian culture over the last 150 years.
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All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (Chap. 2 "Seminoles: At the Heart of the Everglades") » Read Now
by Winona LaDuke. 246 pgs.

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This eagerly awaited debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is borne from long years of experience, and is deepened by...
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This eagerly awaited debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is borne from long years of experience, and is deepened by inspiring testimonies from local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.
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Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance » Read Now
by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. 198 pgs.

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In 1898 after the murder of a white woman, two young Seminoles were chained and burned alive. Hiding behind a wall of silence and fearing reprisal for identifying the executioners, virtually the entire white community became involved with the ghastly execution. In this absorbing narrative Daniel F...
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In 1898 after the murder of a white woman, two young Seminoles were chained and burned alive. Hiding behind a wall of silence and fearing reprisal for identifying the executioners, virtually the entire white community became involved with the ghastly execution. In this absorbing narrative Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., captures the horror and details the events that incited this alarming act of mob violence and community complicity. Seminole Burning not only gives an account of a dramatic, violent chapter in Indian-white relations but also provides insights into the social, economic, and legal history of the times. Because the lynchers took the victims out of Indian Territory and into the new state of Oklahoma for execution, the case became a target for federal investigation. With the conviction of six this became the first successful prosecution of lynchers in the Southwest.
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The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast » Read Now
by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green. 317 pgs.

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Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex...
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Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex and elaborate societies that emerged and flourished in the Pre-Columbian period; the triple curse of disease, economic dependency, and political instability brought by the European invasion; the role of Native Americans in the inter-colonial struggles for control of the region; the removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" to Oklahoma; the challenges and adaptations of the post-removal period; and the creativity and persistence of those who remained in the Southeast.
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Our Georgia-Florida Frontier: The Okefinokee Swamp, Its History and Cartography, Vol. I (1945) (Part VI "The Seminoles and the Seminole Wars to 1838") » Read Now
by Albert Hazen Wright. 264 pgs.

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"The English Has Now a Mind to Make Slaves of Them All": Creeks, Seminoles, and the Problem of Slavery, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Claudio Saunt. 24 pgs.

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