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padding:120px 0 0 0"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=160875370615196&sk=basic#!/pages/Seminole-Tribe-of-Florida-Board-of-Directors-President-Richard-Bowers-Jr/160875370615196"> <img style="border:none;" alt="" src="images/facebook.png" /></a> <br /><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/#!/BoardDirectors"><img style="border:none;" alt="" src="images/twiteer.png" /></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="#"><img src="images/SEMINOLE-ARTS-n-CRAFTS.gif" alt="Seminole Arts &amp; Crafts" width="136" height="143" vspace="4" border="0"> <br /><img src="images/CHOOPEEK-CHEKE-GIFTSHOP.gif" alt="Choopeek-Cheke Gift Shop" width="136" height="112" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="606" height="100%" align="center" valign="top" nowrap bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border-left: 1px #000000 solid; border-top: 1px #000000 solid; border-bottom: 1px #000000 solid"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Body" --> <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><table width="95%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0"> <tr align="center" valign="top"> <td height="50" valign="middle" nowrap><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">History of the Tribe</font></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="100%" align="left" valign="top"><div align="justify" class=CM3 style="text-align:justify;line-height:16.8pt"> <div align="justify" class=Section1> <p align="justify" class=Default style='text-align:justify;line-height:16.55pt'><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-family:Verdana'>For thousands of years before the coming of Europeans Southeastern North America, perhaps as many as 400,000 of the ancestors of the Seminoles built towns and villages and complex civilizations across the vast area. After 1510, when the Spaniards began to explore and settle in their territory, disease killed many of these people, but they were never &quot;destroyed&quot; or  conquered so many of the white men's history books proclaim. The survivors amalgamated across the peninsula of Florida and continued their lives. </span></font></p> <p align="justify" class=Default style='text-align:justify;line-height:16.55pt'><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-family:Verdana'>When the first English speakers entered the area of the Southeast that is now Florida, in 1763, they found many of these survivors from tribes such as the Euchee, Yamasee, Timugua, Tequesta, Abalachi, Coca, and hundreds of others, living across as  free people across the head of the Florida peninsula, on the Alachua savannah (the area now known as Alachua County). In Maskókî the core language, <span class=SpellE>istí</span>  siminolí meant that they were &quot;free people because they had never been dominated by the Spaniards or the English interlopers. In the Hitchítí dialect of Maskókî, today known as Mikisúkî, the same phrase was yat siminoli. English speakers ignored their separate tribal affiliations and just called them all Seminolies, or Seminoles. </span></font></p> <p align="justify" class=CM1 style='text-align:justify;line-height:16.8pt'><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Further north, in the area now known as Georgia, English traders, who had begun to settle in 1690, found many other Mask</span><span style='font-family:Verdana'>ókî<span style='color:black'> tribes living along low-lying creeks, especially the Ocon</span>î<span style='color:black'> and Ogich</span>î <span style='color:black'>tribes, and, once again ignoring the realities of the Natives lives, they began to refer to these and, soon, all of the Mask</span>ókî peoples<span style='color:black'> across the Southeast just as &quot;Creeks. </span></span></font></p> <p align="justify" class=Default style=' text-align:justify;line-height:17.15pt'><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-family: Verdana'>With the end of the American Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States in 1784, white settlers moved steadily southward into the Spanish and former English colonies. It became more and more obvious that a clash between white immigrants and the Native inhabitants of the land would take place sooner or later. The new US began a concerted policy of taking or buying land from the Native tribes in the Northeast and the Atlantic seaboard states. By 1813, some of the Maskókî tribes in Alabama rose up against the white settlers and against those other tribes that supported white settlement. This conflict, known as the Creek War of 1813-14, was disastrous to the cultural relatives of the Seminoles. General, later president, Andrew Jackson, brought US troops to crush the uprising and forced a treaty on the Creeks that took over 2,000,000 acres of land away from his foes and his allies alike. Several thousand Maskókî people, warriors and their wives and children, lost their homes and migrated southward into Spanish Florida where they and the Seminoles increased their resistance to continued white settlement.</span></font></p> </div> <p align="right"><a href="history-tribe2.htm"><img src="images/more-blank-trans.gif" width="79" height="30" border="0"></a></p> </div> <div align="justify" class=CM3 style="text-align:justify;line-height:16.8pt"></div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> </tr> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td height="168" colspan="2"><a href="#"><img src="images/CATTLE-COMPANIES.gif" alt="Cattle Companies" width="136" height="132" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a><a href="#"><img src="images/SEMINOLE-VILLAGE.gif" alt="Seminole Okalee Indian Village &amp; Museum" width="172" height="168" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a><a href="#"><img src="images/BIG-CYPRESS.gif" alt="Big Cypress &amp; Brighton Trading Post" width="139" height="168" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a><a href="#"><img src="images/TRIBAL-SMOKE-SHOP.gif" alt="Tribal Smoke Shops" width="140" height="168" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a><img src="images/CAMPGROUND.gif" width="174" height="168" border="0" align="absmiddle" usemap="#Map"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="34" colspan="2" align="center" valign="top" background="images/BOTTOM-BAR.gif">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#E3C372"> <td height="100" colspan="2" align="center"><p><a href="sitemap.htm" class="TopNav">Site Map</a>&nbsp; &#8226;&nbsp; <a href="contactus.asp" class="TopNav">Contact Us</a>&nbsp; &#8226;&nbsp; <a href="index.htm" class="TopNav">Home</a></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Copyright 2005 Seminole Tribe Of Florida Inc. - All Rights Reserved</strong></font></p></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="11,6,166,87" href="#" alt="Brighton Seminole Campgrounds"> <area shape="rect" coords="10,88,166,165" href="#" alt="Seminole Tribe Groves"> </map> <!-- Google Analytics --> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2549392-16']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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