THE SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA
HOKE-TI-CHEE. LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BRIGHT EYES
THE SEMINOLES
OF
FLORIDA
MINNIE MOORE-WILLSON
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright 1896, 1910 and 1920
by
MINNIE MOORE-WILLSON
| First | Edition, | Jan., 1896 |
| Second | ” | Jan., 1910 |
| Third | ” | Dec., 1911 |
| Fourth | ” | Sept., 1912 |
| Fifth | ” | Aug., 1914 |
| Sixth | ” | Oct., 1916 |
| Seventh | ” | Feb., 1920 |
Printed in the United States of America
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
MRS. ELIZABETH STAUFFER-MOORE
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF HER PHILANTHROPIC
INTEREST IN A BRAVE AND HEROIC REMNANT OF THE
ABORIGINAL AMERICANS, THE SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
HER TIMELY AID IN THE CRISIS OF THEIR EXISTENCE
HELPED TO RESCUE THEM FROM OBLIVION AND TO
PROVIDE FOR THEM THE RIGHTS OF A FREE PEOPLE.
Minnie Moore-Willson.
FOREWORD
When most of the Seminoles were moved fromFlorida to Indian Territory, a few score of themwere unwilling to go. Of these who remained,the descendants, ten years ago, numbered about six hundred.An effort was made at that time to buy forthis band the land on which they lived and a fewhundred dollars was given for that purpose.
In the study of this fragment in their singular surroundingsas portrayed in the pages of this book, onegets, as it were, a glimpse of their camp-fire life, aview of their sun-bleached wigwams and an insightinto the character of these proud but homeless people.
Not much apparently can be done for this home-keepingremnant of the Florida aborigines, but it ishelp and a pr