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SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their See also:
SECESSION
secession from the See also:
CREEK
CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)
Creek confederacy) , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Muskhogean stock. They originally formed See also:

PART

part of the Creek'confederacy, but separated from it See also:

early in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and occupied the greater part of See also:

FLORIDA

Florida. In 1817—1818' their attacks on the Georgian and See also:

ALABAMA

Alabama settlements resulted in the invasion of their territory by See also:

General See also:

Andrew See also:

Jackson, who defeated them and hanged two See also:

BRITISH

British traders, named See also:

Arbuthnot and Ambrister, who were alleged to be the instigators of the raids. The See also:

long Seminole See also:

War of 1835-42, the hardest-fought of all the See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

WARS

wars, was due to the tribe's refusal to cede their lands and remove to See also:

ARKANSAS

Arkansas in accordance with the treaty (see See also:

OSCEOLA (a corruption of the Seminole As-se-he-ho-lar, meaning black drink) (c. 1804—1838)

OSCEOLA) of See also:

PAYNE, PETER (c. 138o-1455)

Payne's Landing (1832). At the See also:

close of this struggle, costing thousands of lives and millions of dollars, the Seminoles were removed to Arkansas. They were recognized as " the Seminole Nation," and as one of the " Five Civilized Tribes, " and granted See also:

AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy upon the See also:

scale permitted the other four, the See also:

Cherokee, See also:

CHICKASAW

Chickasaw, See also:

CHOCTAW

Choctaw and Creek. They live now mainly in See also:

OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, and a few in Florida.

End of Article: SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their secession from the Creek confederacy)

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