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The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are a Native American nation which coalesced in northern Florida during the early 1700s, when the territory was still a Spanish colonial ...
The only federally recognized tribes in Florida are: Miccosukee – One of the two tribes to emerge by ethnogenesis from the migrations into Florida and wars with the United States. They were part of the Seminole nation until the mid-20th century, when they organized as an independent tribe, receiving federal recognition in 1962.
The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between the United States and groups of people collectively known as Seminoles, consisting of Creek and Black Seminoles as well as other allied tribes (see below).
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Part of the War of 1812: Creek War (1813–14) Part of the War of 1812 United States Choctaw Nation Lower Creeks Cherokee: Red Stick Creek: Treaty of Fort Jackson; First Seminole War (1817–18) United States: Seminole Spanish Florida: Texas–Indian wars (1820–75) Part of the Apache Wars Republic of Texas United States: Comanche: Arikara War ...
Wars between the United States and Canada and Indigenous people are covered in the American Indian Wars article. Wars other than those referred to in the US and in Canada as the Indian Wars include: Pequot War (1637–1638) — British colonists in what is now Massachusetts allied with some Indian tribes, against the Pequot tribe
Wilson Bowers, an artist and member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, works on his painting at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum's Indigenous Artist Series on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.
The Seminole were a heterogeneous tribe made up of mostly Lower Creeks from Georgia, who by the time of the Creek War (1813–1814) numbered about 4,000 in Florida. At that time, numerous refugees of the Red Sticks migrated south, adding about 2,000 people to the population.