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Seminoles

White Buffalo Native American

The Native Americans have been around for a very long time. People don't realize how important they are. They introduced skills to the White men such as catching fish, making teepes and building adobe houses. They sometimes can be very violent. They would fight and kill the white man....

Seminole Cheif

The unique connection of culture and circumstances came together to make
today's Seminole Tribe of Florida. It started way back 12,000 years ago, Say researchers. There is a lot of evidence that the Seminole people of today are cultural descendants of Native Americans who were living in the southeastern United States at least that long ago.

By the time the Spanish people "discovered" Florida (1513), this large territory held, perhaps, 200,000 Seminole ancestors in hundreds of tribes, all members of the Maskókî language family. The first Europeans brought with them new diseases (measles, smallpox, the common cold) that killed thousands of these people who
were there a long time. Competition for land and resources by the warring Spanish, English, and French brought further death and displacement to the natives of the region.

The Spaniards called some of these indigenous Florida people "Cimarrones", or free people, because they would not allow themselves to be dominated by the Europeans.

The word was taken into the Maskókî language and, by the mid 1800s, U.S. citizens referred to all Florida people as "Seminoles."

Survivors of that devastating European intrusion amalgamated in the area that is now known as Florida. Early in the 18th century, the lives and homelands of many more indigenous peoples were similarly disruped, this time by American colonization efforts.
Many were Maskókî speakers, from Indian towns across Georgia and Alabama.

Creek, Hitchiti, Apalachee, Mikisúkî, Yamassee, Yuchi, Tequesta, Apalachicola, Choctaw, and Oconee were joined by escaped slaves and others in the pursuit of better lives among the thick virgin forests, wide grass prairies and spring-fed rivers of interior Florida.
They shared an instinct for survival and a commonalty of purpose: the refusal to be dominated by the white man.

There is ample evidence that the
Seminole people of today are cultural?

A.wierdos .C. fat blobs
B. decendants D. People of the Gods

   Who discovered Florida?
           A. Spainards     C. England
           B. Indians            D. Portugal

The first Europeans brought with them new diseases?
A. chicken pox and HIV C. Common cold and Measles
B. Hepititas B D. All of the above

    Who brought further death and displacement to the
          natives of the region?
           A.English Spanish French C.China Russia India
        B. Germany Poland Italy       D. Canada Greenland Denmark