Category: History - American
When most of the Seminoles were moved from Florida to Indian Territory, a few score of them were unwilling to go. Of these who remained, the descendants, ten years ago, numbered about six hundred. An effort was made at that time to buy for this band the land on which they live...
When most of the Seminoles were moved from Florida to Indian Territory, a few score of them were unwilling to go. Of these who remained, the descendants, ten years ago, numbered...
2. Part 2The Creeks now found themselves utterly unable to comply with their treaty. The planters of Georgia began to press the Government for the return of their fugitive slaves. Secret...
3. Part 3Interviewing old settlers who well remember events of those stirring times, one finds the heroic part of Osceola’s character to have been not overdrawn in history. The Seminole...
4. Part 4Then came the clamor of white settlers for the removal of the “savages” and white guerrillas dressed and painted as Indians went about the country robbing and murdering mail and...
5. Part 5The chiefs have taught the young braves all about the outrages perpetrated upon their tribe by unscrupulous agents during the wars; and while the Indians themselves in many case...
6. Part 6History, romance and poetry have held up the characteristics of the red man to our gaze from childhood. And while treachery may be a distinguishing feature of the Indian nature,...
7. Part 7The dress of the Seminole chief consists of a tunic embraced by a bright sash, close fitting leggins of deer-skin, which are embellished with delicately cut thongs of the same m...
8. Part 8If the reader will follow the lines of the accompanying diagram, tracing from left, he will see that the long line of dancers, as they pass around the poles, appears to be comin...
9. Part 9It will take no great stretch of fancy to suppose that before the mysterious chain of migration the Aztecs and the early Egyptians were allied. As we study, to-day, the frail re...
10. Part 10Seminole children are on the whole very much like other children, some bright, some good, some perverse, all exceedingly human. With the discipline already instilled into their...
11. Part 11“_Dear Sir_:--Replying to your letter of the 24th inst., I beg to say that about six weeks ago a Mr. ----, about whom nothing is known here, wrote to the National Museum and off...
12. Part 12The great number of mounds found in Florida afford attractive study to the lover of scientific research. These mounds are of many shapes, heights and areas. They are found in al...
13. Part 13Twenty thousand purchasers of lands in the Everglades, backed by the power of American democracy, had _demanded_ their lands or the return of their good American dollars. The Fe...
14. Part 14We look again, and the slide shows the cypress canoe “car lines”; these are the secret channels cut through the watery saw-grass prairies by the ancestors of the present Seminole.
15. Part 15Today the Seminole suffers and endures without complaint and retains his old-time pride. As is known, the Seminole in polite but in positive terms, refuses presents of any magni...
16. Part 16Would not the spirit of this brave patriot rejoice to note that his fame was known to his conquerors and a memorial erected that would link the names of the Indians and the Amer...
17. Part 17Cho-co-ta-ti-yee Village. Cho-co-hum-co-see Wigwam. E-how-kee Door way. We-chow-hi-lit Spark. No-clit Burn. Tode-caw Fire. Tock-hot-chee Fire wood (burning) Lip-la-it Blaze. Tok...
18. Part 18Go-chee-som-po-lock-o Large star. Go-chee-som-pol-e-poch-go-chee Small star. Cho-go-lof-caw Seven stars. Ho-nit-claw North star. Wa-hit-law South star. Ho-so-shaw East star. Aw-...