See also:

• SEMINOLE
• SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their secession from the Creek confederacy)

SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their See also:

• SECESSION

secession from the See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek confederacy)  , a tribe of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Muskhogean stock . They originally formed See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek'confederacy, but separated from it See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and occupied the greater part of See also:

• FLORIDA

Florida . In 1817—1818' their attacks on the Georgian and See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama settlements resulted in the invasion of their territory by See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• JACKSON
• JACKSON, ANDREW (1767-1845)
• JACKSON, CYRIL (1746-1819)
• JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE (186o– )
• JACKSON, HELEN MARIA (1831–1885)
• JACKSON, MASON (c. 1820-1903)
• JACKSON, THOMAS (1579-1640)
• JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863)
• JACKSON, WILLIAM (1730-1803)

Jackson, who defeated them and hanged two See also:

• BRITISH

British traders, named See also:

• ARBUTHNOT, ALEXANDER (1538-1583)
• ARBUTHNOT, JOHN (1667-1735)

Arbuthnot and Ambrister, who were alleged to be the instigators of the raids . The See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SEMINOLE
• SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their secession from the Creek confederacy)

Seminole See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of 1835-42, the hardest-fought of all the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• WARS

wars, was due to the tribe's refusal to cede their lands and remove to See also:

• ARKANSAS

Arkansas in accordance with the treaty (see See also:

• OSCEOLA (a corruption of the Seminole As-se-he-ho-lar, meaning black drink) (c. 1804—1838)

OSCEOLA) of See also:

• PAYNE, PETER (c. 138o-1455)

Payne's Landing (1832) . At the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of this struggle, costing thousands of lives and millions of dollars, the Seminoles were removed to Arkansas . They were recognized as " the Seminole Nation," and as one of the " Five Civilized Tribes, " and granted See also:

• AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy upon the See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale permitted the other four, the See also:

• CHEROKEE
• CHEROKEE (native Tsalagi, " cave people ")

Cherokee, See also:

• CHICKASAW

Chickasaw, See also:

• CHOCTAW

Choctaw and Creek . They live now mainly in See also:

• OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, and a few in Florida .