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The Seminole are a Native American people who developed in Florida in the 18th century. Today, they live in Oklahoma and Florida, and comprise three federally recognized tribes: the Seminole Nation of
A Seminole mother and her children from the Brighton Reservation in Florida, 1949
Coeehajo, Chief, 1837, Smithsonian American Art Museum
A sign at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park commemorating hundreds of enslaved African Americans who in the early 1820s escaped from this area with the help of British boat captains to freedom in the Bahamas.
Captain Francis Asbury Hendry (center, standing) poses with a group of Seminole Indians
Seminole Wars
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The Seminole Wars were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminole Tribe of Florida tend to vi
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…to recapture escaped slaves living among the Seminole. American general Andrew Jackson's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Seminole War. Though Spain decried the incursions into its territory, the United States effectively controlled the Florida panhandle after the war. In 1819, the…
Seminole men hide among mangrove roots as a U.S. Marine expedition searches for them in the Everglades during the Second Seminole War Marines Battle Seminole Indians in the Florida War—1835–1842, painted in 1956
Andrew Jackson led an invasion of Florida during the First Seminole War.
Edmund Pendleton Gaines commanded Federal troops at the Battle of Negro Fort.
Illustration of the arrest of Hillis Hadjo and Homathlemico at St. Mark's