
The Seminoles of Florida
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About This Book
When most of the Seminoles were moved from Florida to Indian Territory, a few scores 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 lived and a few hundred dollars was given for that purpose. In the study of this fragment in their singular surroundings as portrayed in the pages of this book, one gets, as it were, a glimpse of their camp-fire life, a view of their sun-bleached wigwams, and an insight into the character of these proud but homeless people.
Chapters (344)
- THE SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART FIRST
- Facts of Earlier Days
- ORIGIN OF TROUBLES.
- EFFORTS AT INDIAN REMOVAL.
- THE MASSACRE OF GENERAL THOMPSON AND OF DADE’S FORCES.
- A DISHONORED TREATY.
- AS-SE-HE-HO-LAR, THE RISING SUN, OR OSCEOLA.
- OSCEOLA’S CAPTURE.
- THE HIDDEN WAR CAMP.
- WILD CAT AND GENERAL WORTH.
- INDIAN WARFARE.
- INTERLUDE ‘DAT SEMINOLE TREATY DINNER.’
- PART SECOND
- The Present Condition and Attitude of the Seminoles
- NATIONAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION Its Work and its Results
- THE FRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES.
- OUR DUTY TO THESE WARDS OF THE NATION.
- CHIEF TALLAHASSEE.
- INCREASING.
- APPEARANCE AND DRESS.
- INDEPENDENCE AND HONOR.
- THE SEMINOLE’S UNWRITTEN VERDICT OF THE WHITE RACE.
- ENDURANCE AND FEASTS.
- THE HUNTING DANCE.
- SLAVERY.
- HANNAH, THE LAST LIVING SLAVE OF THE SEMINOLE INDIANS.
- UNWRITTEN LAWS.
- GENS AND MARRIAGE.
- BEAUTY AND MUSIC.
- RELATIONSHIP TO THE AZTECS AND EASTERN TRIBES “Yah-vey, Yah-vey”
- SEMINOLES AT HOME The Everglades
- ALLIGATOR HUNTING.
- BEAR HUNTING WITH THE SEMINOLES.
- CHIEF TOM TIGER (MIC-CO TUSTENUGGEE).
- NANCY OSCEOLA.
- BILLY BOWLEGS (CHO-FEE-HAT-CHO).
- RELIGION.
- BROUGHT BACK.
- MOUNDS.
- PICTURE WRITING.
- MEDICINE.
- FLORIDA’S ABIDING WORDS OF BEAUTY THE HERITAGE OF THE ABORIGINAL PATHFINDERS.
- THE SEMINOLE’S RECESSIONAL.
- SUPPLEMENT
- THE LEAST KNOWN WILDERNESS OF AMERICA
- TOGETHER WITH THE STORY OF THE RED INHABITANTS
- THE LAND OF THE SEMINOLE
- EVERGLADE SCENARIO
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATES LAND DEALS
- CROSSING THE EVERGLADES BY AEROPLANE
- EVERGLADE GEYSER
- SEMINOLE HISTORY REVIEWED
- THE 1917 LAND BILL.
- A VISIT TO A SEMINOLE CAMP.
- VISITORS FROM THE EVERGLADES.
- STEM-O-LA-KEE.
- HOME AND RELIGION.
- SEMINOLE INCIDENTS.
- MESSAGES FROM THE EVERGLADES.
- SEMINOLES FIRST SUFFRAGISTS.
- OSCEOLA, THE GARIBALDI OF THE SEMINOLES
- SHALL OSCEOLA’S BONES BE REMOVED?
- A MEMORIAL TO OSCEOLA.
- A BRONZE STATUE IN THE EVERGLADES.
- THE POCAHONTAS OF FLORIDA. U-LE-LAH, THE PRINCESS OF HIRRIHIGUA.
- U-LE-LAH, THE POCAHONTAS OF FLORIDA.
- FERDINAND DE SOTO.
- PRINCESS OF HIRRIHIGUA.
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