Yamasee
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The Yamasee were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans consisting of the survivors of several chiefdoms in Georgia destroyed by disruptions caused by European explorers and settlers in the 1
Image of Roberto, Yamasee Roman Catholic martyr (d. 1740)
Seminole
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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
Yamasee
…Palmer (leading fifty Carolinian militiamen and one hundred Indians) eventually led many of the remaining Yamasees to disperse, with some joining the Seminole or Creek. Still others remained near St. Augustine until the Spanish relinquished control of the city to the British in 1763. A remant group of around…
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