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Seminole

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Seminole

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).

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Seminole, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 10890
Housing Units (2000): 7297
Land area (2000): 2.473824 sq. miles (6.407174 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.242529 sq. miles (0.628146 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.716353 sq. miles (7.035320 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64975
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.838502 N, 82.784913 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 34642
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Seminole, FL
Seminole
Seminole, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 6899
Housing Units (2000): 3172
Land area (2000): 13.946845 sq. miles (36.122160 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.574137 sq. miles (1.487007 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.520982 sq. miles (37.609167 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66350
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.241132 N, 96.668419 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74868
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Seminole, OK
Seminole
Seminole, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 5910
Housing Units (2000): 2337
Land area (2000): 3.353610 sq. miles (8.685810 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.353610 sq. miles (8.685810 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66764
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.718550 N, 102.649975 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79360
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Seminole, TX
Seminole
Seminole -- U.S. County in Georgia
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), FIPS 13
Location: 30.956754 N, 84.868391 W
Headwords:
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Seminole, GA
Seminole County
Seminole County, GA
Seminole -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 24894
Housing Units (2000): 11146
Land area (2000): 632.512712 sq. miles (1638.200335 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.056953 sq. miles (20.867412 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 640.569665 sq. miles (1659.067747 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.170799 N, 96.604951 W
Headwords:
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Seminole, OK
Seminole County
Seminole County, OK
Seminole -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 365196
Housing Units (2000): 147079
Land area (2000): 308.203823 sq. miles (798.244204 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 36.667319 sq. miles (94.967916 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 344.871142 sq. miles (893.212120 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.709909 N, 81.310831 W
Headwords:
Seminole
Seminole, FL
Seminole County
Seminole County, FL
Wikipedia
Seminole (disambiguation)

The Seminole are a Native American people formed in Florida in the 18th century.

Seminole can also refer to:

Seminole (film)

Seminole is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale, and Richard Carlson. Much of the film was shot in the Everglades National Park, Florida.

Seminole (train)

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 from 1909 to 1969 and was the first year-round service between the two cities.

Seminole (band)

Seminole was an American country music duo from Florida composed of brothers Jimmy Myers and Donald "Butch" Myers. The duo got their start performing at the Cypress Lounge in Bunnell, Florida. They made their way to Nashville after slipping a demo tape to Mark Miller, the lead singer of Sawyer Brown.

Their debut single, "She Knows Me by Heart", was released by Curb/ Universal on August 12, 1997. It peaked at number 69 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Seminole

The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida. They comprise three federally recognized tribes and independent groups, most living in Oklahoma with a minority in Florida. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creek from what are now northern Muscogee. The word Seminole is a corruption of cimarrón, a Spanish term for "runaway" or "wild one".

During their early decades, the Seminole became increasingly independent of other Creek groups and established their own identity. They developed a thriving trade network during the British and second Spanish periods (roughly 1767–1821). The tribe expanded considerably during this time, and was further supplemented from the late 18th century by free black people and escaped enslaved people who settled near and paid tribute to Seminole towns. The latter became known as Black Seminoles, although they kept their own Gullah culture of the Low Country. They developed the Afro-Seminole Creole language, which they spoke through the 19th century after the move to Indian Territory.

Seminole culture is largely derived from that of the Creek; the most important ceremony is the Green Corn Dance; other notable traditions include use of the black drink and ritual tobacco. As the Seminole adapted to Florida environs, they developed local traditions, such as the construction of open-air, thatched-roof houses known as chickees. Historically the Seminole spoke Mikasuki and Creek, both Muskogean languages.

After the independent United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1819, its settlers increased pressure on Seminole lands. During the period of the Seminole Wars (1818–1858), the tribe was first confined to a large reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823) and then evicted from the territory altogether according to the Treaty of Payne's Landing (1832). By 1842, most Seminoles and Black Seminoles had been coerced or forced to move to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. During the American Civil War, most of the Oklahoma Seminole allied with the Confederacy, after which they had to sign a new treaty with the U.S., including freedom and tribal membership for the Black Seminole. Today residents of the reservation are enrolled in the federally recognized Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, while others belong to unorganized groups.

Perhaps fewer than 200 Seminoles remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War (1855–1858), but they fostered a resurgence in traditional customs and a culture of staunch independence. In the late 19th century, the Florida Seminole re-established limited relations with the U.S. government and in 1930 received of reservation lands. Few Seminole moved to reservations until the 1940s; they reorganized their government and received federal recognition in 1957 as the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The more traditional people near the Tamiami Trail received federal recognition as the Miccosukee Tribe in 1962.

The Oklahoma and Florida Seminole filed land claim suits in the 1950s, which were combined in the government's settlement of 1976. The tribes and Traditionals took until 1990 to negotiate an agreement as to division of the settlement, a judgment trust against which members can draw for education and other benefits. The Florida Seminole founded a high-stakes bingo game on their reservation in the late 1970s, winning court challenges to initiate Indian Gaming, which many tribes have adopted to generate revenues for welfare, education and development.

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.