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The black Seminole culture that took shape after 1800 was a dynamic mixture of African, Native American, Spanish, and slave traditions. Adopting certain practices of the Native Americans, maroons wore Seminole clothing and ate the same foodstuffs prepared the same way: they gathered the roots of a native plant called coontie, grinding, soaking, and straining them to make a starchy flour ...
The Black Seminole Scouts were disbanded twenty-one years later in 1914 and most were forced to leave the Fort Clark reservation with their families. Just twenty-seven Black Seminoles were allowed to remain at the fort but only until the elders of the group had departed. The official report of the disbandment reads as follows:
Because the judgment trust was based on tribal membership as of 1823, it excluded Seminole Freedmen, as well as Black Seminoles who held land next to Seminole communities. In 2000 the Seminole chief moved to formally exclude Black Seminoles unless they could prove descent from a Native American ancestor on the Dawes Rolls. 2,000 Black Seminoles ...
Florida Memory, Set 72157613274904712, ID 3311787651, Original title Aged black Seminole smokes from his pipe: Everglades, Florida File usage The following page uses this file:
1971–1979: Howard Tommie, [17] political leader and two-term chairman of Seminole Tribal Council who initiated programs in the 1970s, including accepting the U.S. land claim settlement; successfully negotiated with the State of Florida for water rights for the Seminole reservations, and establishment of tax-free smoke shops and high-stakes ...
Black Seminole people (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Black Seminoles" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Images of the Black Seminole slave rebellion at John Horse and the Black Seminoles; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-15-4, "New Smyrna Sugar Mill (ruins), New Smyrna vicinity, Volusia County, FL", 5 photos, 4 measured drawings, 5 data pages, supplemental material
Black Seminoles: Indians associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. Bushinengues: in French Guiana, meaning people of the forest, descendants of slaves who escaped enslavement and established independent communities in the forest. Gaspar Yanga: an African known for being the leader of a maroon colony of slaves in New Spain.