FLORIDA'S FAMOUS SEMINOLE LEADERS "If suddenly we tear our hearts from our homes, around which they are twined, our heart strings will snap." A proud Seminole Indian warrior prepares to board the ...

The legendary warrior is also the symbol of Florida State University in Tallahassee. “Osceola served as a cultural bridge between the non-Indian world and the Seminoles,” says Fixico.

For Seminole leaders like Haney, what it now comes down to is proof. "If they don't have any Indian blood, or prove it, then they're not looked at as Indians," he says.

Gen. Thomas Sidney Jesup has gone down in history as a scoundrel. Jesup, of course, was commander of the Army of the South in late 1836 when the Seminole Indians were resisting the federal governme… ...

Did you know the Seminole Indians refused to conduct trade using paper money? When doing business with white traders, the ...

Tigertail was born to the Panther Clan in the 1790s. According to Gov. Richard Call, he had lived in the Tallahassee area all his life, and after the First Seminole War (1817-1819) worked in the ...

In the years after the American Revolution, Seminole Indians built an arsenal of weapons acquired from Cuban and British traders that allowed them to defend their lands as an alternate and well ...

The Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery three miles off Highway 90 south of Brackettville holds the remains of four Congressional Medal of Honor ... By singlehandedly holding off a band of warriors, ...

First the logo was removed from the school's T-shirts. Then the feathered headdress was taken off the stationery. In the 4{ years since Judy LeBoeuf has been principal at Seminole Middle School ...

Ask anyone which “Indian” tribe settled in Florida and you will almost always hear the word Seminole. The truth is that the Seminoles are relatively recent inhabitants of the state. Lar… ...

Days after the Third Seminole War ended in 1858, the Wagner family (early settlers) were frightened to run into Old Tigertail and more than a dozen warriors on the road near Miami.