The Seminoles

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This The Seminoles book includes good information about the Seminoles, who are the people of my great-great-grandmother. But the writing is dry. The Seminole's creation story, information about their leaders, wars, clothing, and housing is included.

flag Like see review/5. The Seminoles are one of the most fascinating Nations of North America, and this book does a wonderful job explaining their history and background.5/5(1). The Seminole (True Books) Library Binding – September 1, by Stefanie Takacs (Author)5/5(1).

Seminole book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Anabaptist Dirk Willems plots his escape from prison and sure death. This book is a history of the Seminoles in Florida, from the migration of Creek Indians in the s through the Seminole Wars and 20th century struggles.

There are pages of main text ( overall), with just over half the book covering events up through the end of the Seminole /5.

The Rise of the Seminoles is nonfiction book that details Bobby Bowden's early years as head coach of Florida State's football program.

The book focuses on the pivotal year of when Bowden's Seminoles achieve their first win season. Each game is thoroughly looked into, from pregame drama, to game highlights/5(6). My research traced my ancestral roots to the ’s. Having been born in Mexico and visiting Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Canada, I read The Seminoles book the sacrifices generations made migrating to new lands.

Seminole, the book, is a true story of faith, hope and persevearance; some people never give up. Seminole, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).

They separated (their name means "separatist") from the Creek in the early 18th cent. and settled in the former territory of the Apalachee in Florida. The Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all the Indian wars fought by this nation.

Written for a popular audience, this illustrated history is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of all three wars/5(19). Seminole State College's bookstores stock books for all courses. Used and rental textbooks, when available, are offered at a reduced price.

Reference books and extra reading materials are carried in open stock. School supplies, computer software, College merchandise and other miscellaneous items are also available. Now Seminoles fans of every generation will get to relive the glory and passion of Florida’s winningest coach in this edition of Tales from the Florida State Seminoles Sideline.

In this gripping narrative, Bobby Bowden and Steve Ellis bring readers right up to the sideline to experience pivotal moments in Florida’s football history/5(10).

He also considers freedmen relations with Seminoles in Oklahoma during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although freedmen and Seminoles enjoy a partially shared past, this book shows that the freedmen’s history Brand: University of Oklahoma Press. The Seminole nation in southeast-central Oklahoma is a land of rolling hills, scrub oak, red dirt, and deep-cut, slow-moving creeks.

Tribal boundaries are not marked by signs and do not appear on state maps, though they are real; no one lives in the fourteen (or is it twelve. or perhaps now only two?) traditional tribal towns, which also appear on no maps.

Portions of the Seminoles’ story-particularly their wars-have been told, but until this book no extensive history of the tribe had been written. Here is the record of. Reprinted by Applewood Books, Rembert Patrick's classic biography of Brigadier General Duncan Lamont Clinch is a study into the life of a man who helped shape early-nineteenth-century America.

America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, –   A great book students could use as supplemental text to write a report specifically about the Seminole Tribe's culture and SS4H1 The student will describe how early Native American cultures developed in North America/5.

Captures the distinct identity and history of the Seminole maroons Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness.

To correct misconceptions of the historical 5/5(1). Seminole, North American Indian tribe of Creek origin who speak a Muskogean the last half of the 18th century, migrants from the Creek towns of southern Georgia moved into northern Florida, the former territory of the Apalachee and about those migrants had begun to be known under the name Seminole, probably derived from the Creek word.

Get this from a library. The Seminoles. [Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve; Ronald Himler] -- Discusses the history, lifestyle, customs, and current situation of the Seminoles.

Book: All Authors / Contributors: Edwin C McReynolds. Find more information about: OCLC Number: Description: xv, pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Seminole beginnings --Return of the Seminoles to Spanish rule --Seminoles and border diplomacy.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a federally recognized Seminole tribe based in the U.S. state of er with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, it is one of three federally recognized Seminole received that status in ; today it has six Indian reservations in Florida.

Inthe Tribe established tax-free smoke .Seminole beginnings --Return of the Seminoles to Spanish rule --Seminoles and border diplomacy, --Indian alliance against the United States --The Creek-Seminole frontier, --The end of the Spanish regime in Florida --The treaty of Camp Moultrie --Difficulties of enforcing the treaty --Agitation for Indian Removal, This book is part of a series which provides an in-depth introduction to the major tribes of North America, in this case the Seminoles.

It looks at amongst other things, the history and culture of the primitive tribes, as well as taking a look at their contemporary situation.