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Seminoles \Sem"i*noles\, n. pl.; sing. Seminole . (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.
Usage examples of seminoles.
As you know, the Seminoles are not a race, but a conglomeration of many Indian tribes, members of which fled into the Everglades in the past.
The Creek land cessions made the Seminoles all the more determined to hold their own homelands.
Sooner or later, he'd drive all the southern tribes across the Mississippi—the Cherokees and Choctaws and Chickasaws who'd fought alongside him just as surely as the Creeks and Seminoles who'd fought against him.
The Seminoles were more in the way of a split off from the Creeks than a truly separate tribe.
If Johnny was puzzled at the existence of a tribe of Seminoles called the Su, the matter was likely to be a very puzzling one.
The Seminoles, husband and wife, children and dogs, occupied two dugout canoes.
Many Seminoles had somewhat Negroid characteristics, due to the fact that Negro slaves had fled into the Everglades for hundreds of years, and had even at times tried to set up an independent nation in the swamp.
Slow John, on the other hand, was swarthy, although not as dark-skinned as the Seminoles native to the Everglades.
Closely allied with the Creeks were the Seminoles, who lived in Florida and Alabama.
Three hundred fugitive slaves and 30 Seminoles were blown to bits, and the Indian tribe was propelled to the brink of war.
With that, many more settlers rushed into the region, overwhelming the battered Seminoles and their remaining Creek allies.
Like the Cherokees, the Seminoles suffered abuse from state and local governments.
But before they returned, an Indian agent named John Phagan coerced tribal representatives into signing a final treaty, binding the Seminoles to leave Florida by 1837.
Traditionally, the Lower Town Creeks and the Seminoles had been the southern Indian tribes most closely tied to the British and Spanish.
As long as the Dons hold territory in North America, the British will use it as an invasion route whenever they can—and as a conduit to arm and stir up the Creeks and Seminoles against us year-round, year after year.