USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some Indian nations simply refused to leave their land–the Creeks and the Seminoles even waged war to protect their territory. The First Seminole War lasted from 1817 to 1818. The Seminoles were aided by fugitive slaves who had found protection among them and had been living with them for years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Second Seminole War (1835-1842), usually referred to as the Seminole War proper, was the fiercest war waged by the U.S. government against American Indians. The United States spent more than $20 million fighting the Seminoles.

Detailed explanation-3: -By May 8, 1858, when the United States declared an end to conflicts in the third war with the Seminoles, more than 3, 000 of them had been moved west of the Mississippi River. That left roughly 200 to 300 Seminoles remaining in Florida, hidden in the swamps. For the next two decades, little was seen of Florida Seminole.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Seminole people emerged in a process of ethnogenesis from various Native American groups who settled in Spanish Florida beginning in the early 1700s, most significantly northern Muscogee Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama. The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogee word simanó-li.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Seminoles’ Trail of Tears went from Tampa (Fort Brooke) to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory. By the end of the Seminole Wars, more than 4, 000 Seminoles and blacks were deported to the Indian Territory.