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seminole

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1763, from Creek (Muskogean) simano:li , earlier simalo:ni "wild, untamed, runaway," from American Spanish cimarron (see maroon (v.)). They fought ward against U.S. troops 1817-18 and 1835-42, after which they largely were removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma). ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 9369 Housing Units (2000): 4742 Land area (2000): 238.038428 sq. miles (616.516673 sq. km) Water area (2000): 18.524416 sq. miles (47.978014 sq. km) Total area (2000): 256.562844 sq. miles (664.494687 sq. km) Located within: Georgia (GA), ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Seminole , also known as the Seminole Limited , was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Illinois Central Railroad , Central of Georgia Railway , and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad between Chicago , Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida . It operated ...

Usage examples of seminole.

They went on, leaving the two boatloads of innocent-looking Seminoles behind.

Cypress Indins, or Mikasukis, were Creeks same as the Seminoles, Daddy Richard said, only their language was Hitchiti, not Muskogee, they were more hunters than farmers, kept no cattle.

The rebels in Georgia threaten us, the Tories at Pensacola warn us, the Seminoles are gathering, the Minorcans are arming, the blacks in the Carolinas watch us, and the British regiments at Augustine are all itching to ravage and plunder and drive us into the sea if we declare not for the King who pays them.

With them will be bodies of three warriors of the Buffalo Society: Jackie Noni of the Potawatomi Nation, and John Tull, of the Seminole, and myself, whom the white men call Hoski, or James Tso, a warrior of the Navajo Nation.

As well, the troupe included a little menagerie of Indians of several makes, a Seminole from Florida, a Creek, a Cherokee from Echota, and a Yemassee woman.

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.

These, in contrast to the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, were wild Indians, giving to raiding, horse-thieving, and scalp-hunting.

The Indians of the eastern Territory were mostly of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

The Seminoles were more in the way of a split off from the Creeks than a truly separate tribe.

He was a veteran of the Seminole Wars and a pioneer cattleman on the Alachua Prairie, moving huge herds with his cowboys and a grub wagon all the way from the St.

None of them were at full strength, but add together Seminoles, Dons, West Indian Negroes, and a naval landing party as large as ours, they probably outnumbered us by half again.

But from the little I know, I didn't think buffalo robes went with the Seminole.

In the backyard of our house on Seminole, I jumped through the sprinkler in my bathing suit, a two-piece number, while Chapter Eleven picked dandelions to make dandelion wine.