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Book A Friend of the Seminole

Download or read book A Friend of the Seminole written by George Ethelbert Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork

Download or read book The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork written by Beverly Rush and published by Madrona Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Englishman in the Seminole War  A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose

Download or read book An Englishman in the Seminole War A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose written by Randal J. Agostini and published by Florida Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bemrose came to America from England as an unaccompanied 16-year-old in 1831. He served in the US Army as a dedicated hospital steward during the Second Seminole War. This exciting memoir, available to the public for the first time, provides valuable new insights into Florida history and culture from An Englishman in the Seminole War.

Book Legends of the Seminoles

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  • Author : Betty Mae Jumper
  • Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781561640409
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Legends of the Seminoles written by Betty Mae Jumper and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folk stories talk about human, animal, and spirit characters who act out important lessons about living in the natural world of the Florida Everglades.

Book Seminole

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  • Author : Tina Siemens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-07
  • ISBN : 9781087865652
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Seminole written by Tina Siemens and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two worlds collide as the Mennonites migrate from Canada to Mexico, and on to Texas while the U.S. Cavalry work to make the land safe for settlers. Tina Siemens tells the sweeping saga of an event that captivated the world's attention: where immigration laws meet religious beliefs. Something had to give. Could Congress come together?

Book Through Swamp and Glade

Download or read book Through Swamp and Glade written by Kirk Munroe and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seminoles

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  • Author : Edwin C. McReynolds
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1957
  • ISBN : 9780806112558
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Seminoles written by Edwin C. McReynolds and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe that never officially made peace with the United States. General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as adversaries: "We have, at no former period in our history, had to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves false to his country, nor has a single instance occurred of a first rate warrior having surrendered." Jesup made those comments in 1837, and they proved true throughout the Seminole-white confrontations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Portions of the Seminoles’ story-particularly their wars-have been told, but until this book no extensive history of the tribe had been written. Here is the record of those dauntless people, who were tricked, robbed, defrauded, and abused. The origins of the tribe, the complex problems concerning their rights in Florida, the military operations against them, their forced removal to Indian Territory, their role in the Civil War, and their adjustment to life in the West are important elements of the book.

Book Seminole Indians  Florida

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Seminole Indians Florida written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 8. Considers potential problems involved in Seminole Indians Federal trusteeship termination and jurisdiction transfer to state government. Apr. 6 hearing was held in Clewiston, Fla. and Apr. 7 hearing in Tamiami Trail, Fla.

Book Horse Girls

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  • Author : Halimah Marcus
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-08-03
  • ISBN : 0063009269
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Horse Girls written by Halimah Marcus and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds. As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media—Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion. Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan. By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.

Book A Land Remembered

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  • Author : Patrick D Smith
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 1561645826
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Book Seminole Song

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  • Author : Vella Munn
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1998-03-15
  • ISBN : 1466832037
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Seminole Song written by Vella Munn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid rising tensions that will tear apart the United States, Florida in the 1830s is in turmoil. The Seminole Indians have been ordered to leave their ancestral lands for reservations in Kansas and Oklahoma, but they instead retreat into the swamps of the Everglades, where they are joined by slaves fleeing cruel plantation owners. One such slave is Calida, who once saved the life of Panther, war chief of the Egret Clan, and who has joined his people in hiding after seeing her master, Reddin Croon, brutally murder his wife. Despite their differences, Calida and Panther are drawn to each other, and though each denies it, they are soon deeply in love. The army has come to round up the Indians, using whatever force is necessary. As war chief, Panther is a special target. But so is Calida, for Reddin Croon has joined the army so that he can find and destroy the only witness to his terrible crime.

Book The Seminoles of Florida

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  • Author : James W. Covington
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2017-11-29
  • ISBN : 1947372378
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The Seminoles of Florida written by James W. Covington and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Book Seminole Indians  Florida

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Seminole Indians Florida written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Distribution of Seminole Judgment Funds

Download or read book Distribution of Seminole Judgment Funds written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression

Download or read book The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression written by C. S. Monaco and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of a costly and influential Jacksonian-era war. The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies. The presence of black warriors among the Seminoles also agitated southerners wary of slave revolt. A lack of decisive victories and a series of bad decisions—among them the capture of Seminole leader Osceola while under the white flag of truce—damaged the US Army's reputation at home and abroad. Desertion was rampant as troops contended with the subtropical Florida wilderness. And losses for the Seminoles were devastating; by the war's end, only a few hundred remained in Florida. In this ambitious study, C. S. Monaco explores the far-reaching repercussions of this bloody, expensive campaign. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Monaco not only places this protracted conflict within a military context but also engages the various environmental, medical, and social aspects to uncover the war's true significance and complexity. By examining the Second Seminole War through the lenses of race, Jacksonian democracy, media and public opinion, American expansion, and military strategy, Monaco offers an original perspective on a misunderstood and often-neglected chapter in our history.

Book Osceola the Seminole

Download or read book Osceola the Seminole written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forever Island

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  • Author : Patrick D. Smith
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1973-01-01
  • ISBN : 0393355241
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Forever Island written by Patrick D. Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man’s fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed. In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, hunting and fishing in the great swamp and farming a tiny plot of higher ground. Charlie has been diligently teaching his grandson, Timmy, about the swamp and its creatures. But their simple existence is suddenly threatened when a large tract of swamp is bought by a corporation, and Charlie is told that he will have to leave. From his youth, Charlie remembers the slaughter of egrets and alligators by the white man and the logging of the giant cypress. Rather than surrender the land that is his life to this final indignity, Charlie decides to fight back. It is an uneven contest. First come the great machines that silt up the streams; then the workmen inadvertently poison the marsh; and, attempting to sabotage the construction equipment, Charlie’s best friend is killed. Realizing that there can be no compromise with the white man who destroys all he touches, Charlie leaves his family and feels into the swamp, seeking the lost island known in the Seminole legends as Forever Island.