Seminole

Joy Harjo 's choice to use of Creek Indian Social Ball Game by Solomon McCombs as cover art for Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings invokes Mvskoke cultural traditions and methods of conflict resolution. The references to traditional ceremonies and the treatment of storytelling in her poems affirms that Harjo sees preservation of her heritage through art as a form of healing from ancestral trauma, a theme that dominates her poetry. Healing implies that the body and soul have worked through a…

of moving away from encouraging the Seminoles to move to the Florida, and instead to force migration to the west of the Mississippi. Among the rationalizations discussed before the introduction of the proposal were that the Indian Territory would supply the Seminoles with more game to hunt, and better soil for cultivation. While no new federal treaty would be negotiated until 1832, the Florida Legislature in 1827 passed a decree to further persuade the Seminoles to comply with the Moultrie…

However, in 1835 the Seminoles rejected the terms of this treaty. As a consequence of this conflict between Indians and whites pertaining to the ownership of land in east Florida, the Second Seminole War began. During this war, several treaties had been made but the Seminole chiefs deemed them as unfair. Due to the war, Major Benjamin Putnam and his troops, who called themselves “Mosquito Roarers”…

occupation and aggression, and later American expansion and slave raids. The tenuous partnership began disintegrating more so as early as the 1845 Treaty with the Creeks, which would be temporarily moderated with the elimination of all slavery among the Seminoles and the other Five Civilized Tribes (Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw) because of Federal pressures to grant rights and cession of land to the African-American members of the Indian nations. There still existed the racial…

I have a distinctive level of connection with three different sports teams such as the Florida State Seminoles football team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. The level of connection I have with the Seminoles football team is an attraction because it is my favorite team. With respect to hedonism, I am attracted to the Seminoles football team because it is fun to watch games, entertaining, and fun to talk about the team. I also get excited from watching several players on…

my tribe. My tribe, the Seminoles, speaks Miccosukee and seminole creek. And if you want to say hello in creek you would say istonko. I am a ten year old boy named Holata, That means alligator. I live in Southern Florida. The seminole formed in the 1700’s. This is where other tribes migrated to Florida. They joined the tribe for better protection. The tribes that joined together for protection were the creeks,miccosukees,hitchitis, and the oconees. This made the Seminole tribe population grow…

opening of the first "smoke shop" (offering discount, tax free tobacco products) in 1977 gave the Seminoles a stable enterprise which continues, even today, to bring substantial revenue into Tribal coffers. The opening of the Tribe's first high-stake bingo hall in Hollywood, shortly after community activist James Billie's first election as Tribal Council Chairman, was a national first. The success of Seminole gaming against legal challenges opened the door for dozens of other American Indian…

When Seminole casinos in Florida were first inaugurated in the mid 20th Century, they were a source of pride for the Seminoles because they innovated on indigenous economic development, and, in doing so, made the indigenous group more autonomous through the influx of gambling revenues. Although Seminole casinos have spurred controversies over indigenous ethnic authenticity, these establishments have been and remain vital in re-defining the ethnic group’s political and economic sovereignty under…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida Language: The traditional language of the Seminole Tribe is Muskogean. Muskogean was one of six major tribal languages spoken throughout the south-east of the United States. A dialect of Muskogean, called Mikasuki, was spoken by the Seminole's of the Everglades in south Florida and Muskogean in Central and North Florida. Additionally, Hitchiti, Koasati, Alabama, Natchez, Yuchi, and Shawnee were also spoken by different factions of the tribe throughout Florida due to…

Do you know what ceremonies the Seminole tribe had? One of them was a ceremony talking about dead people. They would say if a member in your family died the person who killed them would get a punishment by the family members. The relatives of the dead person could pick anything they want the punishment to be. They could pick them being dead or just a painful punishment. When you read this paper, I will talk about the homes they live in, all the food they ate, and a lot of interesting traditions…