Seminole Wars

The American government was strongly against the Native Americans. It was said that the Government had “taken their actions a step further with the Seminole Indians,” of Florida (McGill 1). November of 1817, Andrew Jackson began his campaign against Spanish Forts, as well as Seminole villages in Florida. In retaliation, Seminole Indians began to fight back, starting the first Seminole War, followed by the second, the third and the Trail Of Tears.

“The Seminole Tribe consisted of the Creek, Apache, and Black Slaves who ran away from the south” (McGill 1). The Seminoles leader was Osceola. The Seminoles were not fond of the whites, especially those trying to make and enforce laws to take their land.

“The development of the Southern States disrupted the boundaries of all native American groups in the region” (www.floridahistory.org). In the mid- 1700’s Creeks, predominately of the Hitchiti- speaking Oconee tribe left Western Georgia and moved southward to the Gainesville prairies. “Perhaps they were adventurous young Indians since Seminole means runaway or wild. These small bands of Indians found Spanish Florida a save refuge

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They died of miscellaneous causes such as starvation, disease, and many other causes. It is a policy which as a senate subcommittee on Indian educations reported in 1969, has meant, “the destruction and disorganization of the Indian Communities and individuals,” the sentencing of a whole people to “a life of poverty and despair” (Meltzer 201). Starting in 1838, the Native Americans were kicked out of their land by the United States Government. Hopefully in the future more laws could be made to help the few Native Americans who are left. Most Seminoles were either dead or had already moved from Florida and relocated to Indian Territory, in today’s

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Oklahoma. “Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears. For the remainder who didn’t die on their way there, survival once they got there was the key. A minority of Seminoles signed United States Treaties and surrendered (McGill 2). The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and did not end until 1842. Although there was a Supreme Court Case, and the Native Americans won it, they were still forced to leave their territories.

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