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Unconquered people : Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians / Brent Richards Weisman.
Penn Museum Library E99.S28 W434 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisman, Brent Richards, 1952-
- Series:
- Native peoples, cultures, and places of the southeastern United States
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seminole Indians--History.
- Seminole Indians.
- History.
- Seminole Indians--Social life and customs.
- Mikasuki Indians--History.
- Mikasuki Indians.
- Mikasuki Indians--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- x, 170 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1999]
- Summary:
- Explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture through information provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents, and the oral histories of the Indians.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Becoming Seminole 5
- The Ancestral Creek Tradition 6
- Diversity in the Creek Tradition 11
- From Creek to Seminole 13
- William Bartram Meets the Seminoles 16
- Life and Death among the Alachua Seminoles 21
- Seminoles in the Tallahassee Red Hills 25
- How Did the Seminoles Become Seminole? 26
- The Seminoles Make Themselves 27
- Chapter 2. Camp and Clan 30
- What Would a Clan Camp Look Like? 32
- Continuity and Change in Seminole Clans 36
- Chapter 3. Red Sticks, White Plumes 43
- Cultures on a Collision Course 43
- Containment and Removal 45
- Red Sticks Fight Back 47
- Florida Aflame 49
- Conflicts Unresolved: The Billy Bowlegs War 58
- A Spirit Rekindled 59
- Chapter 4. Big Water, Grass River 66
- The Bad Country 69
- Life on the Everglades Fringe 72
- The Cultural Landscape of the Big Cypress 77
- Early Seminole Settlement in the Everglades 79
- The Question of the Spanish Indians 80
- The Pine Island Ridge and Seminole Settlement in the Eastern Everglades 83
- Okeechobee Groups
- Catfish Creek 87
- Chapter 5. Of Busks and Bundles 90
- First Glimpses of the Green Corn Dance 91
- The Medicine 96
- Seminole Ball Game 102
- The Hunting Dance 105
- Chapter 6. Cows, Corn, and Coontie 107
- Early Seminole Farmers and Herders 107
- Going to the Coontie Grounds 110
- The Curious Case of the Seminole Banana 115
- The Technology of the Seminole Food Quest 116
- Chapter 7. Patchwork and Polyester: Seminoles and Miccosukees in the Modern World 121
- New Ways of Life 123
- A New God 126
- Reservation Life 127
- Two Nations 130
- Seminoles and Archaeologists: Common Ground? 133
- Challenges to a New Generation 135
- Chapter 8. On the Seminole Trail 136
- Panhandle: Tallahassee and Points West 137
- North Florida: Tallahassee to Bushnell 141
- Central Florida: Bushnell to Sebring 149
- South Florida: Sebring South 153
- For Further Information 162
- Timeline 168.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167).
- ISBN:
- 0813016622
- 0813016630
- OCLC:
- 39505548
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