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On 4 April 1955, the tribe created a board of directors and appointed Bill Osceola as chairman. The goal was to form a tribal organization before the Clewiston hearings which would begin in two days. From 6–7 April 1955, hearings were held and the tribe requested the continuance of federal government supervision for the next 25 years and ...
Osceola is the grandson of Bill Osceola, the tribe's first Tribal Council Chairman, serving from 1957 to 1967. Osceola first ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the board of directors of the Seminole Tribe of Florida Inc., which manages the tribe's non-gaming business interests, in 2003 and was finally elected in 2009 on his third try.
From 1–2 March 1954 Osceola and other tribal members testified at a Joint Hearing before the Subcommittees of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the 83rd Congress. On 4 April 1955, the tribe created a board of directors with the intent of forming a tribal organization before the Clewiston hearings which would begin in two days.
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is a federally recognized Seminole tribe based in the U.S. state of Florida. Together with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida , it is one of three federally recognized Seminole entities.
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An additional 35,443 acres (143.43 km 2) are allotted to supplement the tribal land base. The Seminole Tribal Jurisdiction Area, where it provides services to its members, includes most of Seminole County in south-central Oklahoma, approximately 45 miles east of Oklahoma City. The Seminole Nation Tribal Complex is located in the town of Wewoka.
By 2005, a tribal audit showed the Seminole Tribe had taken in $1.1 billion in revenues that year. In 2007, the tribe purchased the Hard Rock Cafe franchise, a worldwide consortium of restaurants, hotels and casinos. In 2011, the Sun Sentinel estimated total revenues taken in by the tribe to be in the billions of dollars and growing. [10]