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PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC = Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus |
Seminole Tribe of Florida - Official Homepage: http://www.seminoletribe.com |
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 Art
of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians -
Publisher's Marketing: "The artistic
tradition that in the past sustained Florida Indians helps identify
them today as possessing a resilient, modern culture. In this richly
illustrated account of the arts and crafts of the Florida Seminole
and Miccosukee Indians, Dorothy Downs shows how artistic expression
reflects and inspires history.
Emphasizing the influence of drastic cultural changes on their artistic traditions, Downs traces Seminole and Miccosukee art from the eighteenth century to the present and demonstrates both the persistence of some prehistoric southeastern Indian designs and the impact of contact with Europeans. In addition to clothing and finger-woven or bead-embroidered accessories, their arts and crafts -- most often practiced by women -- include pottery, basketry, and doll making. Their most powerful artistic expression is found in the colorful and intricate patchwork patterns that have become their 20th-century signature. Incorporating color and black-and-white photographs of these remarkable art pieces, Downs also details the "men's work" of silver and wood crafts and chickee building in a volume sure to interest scholars and the general public alike."
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 Healing
Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
- Publisher's Marketing: "The
first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient
healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium
of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Alice Snow from generations
of her Native American ancestors.
The authors' overview of Seminole history, native medicine, and the life of Snow, a Seminole herbalist (illustrated with personal photographs) places the healing practices in their cultural context and describes actual treatments. Charts with plant names in Creek, Mikasuki, and English and lists of plant properties with their common and botanical names offer easy reference. Drawings and color photographs of the plants provide clear illustrations for the collector. Herbal treatments include those intended for babies, for people who have had a hysterectomy, a stroke, blackouts or shortness of breath, "monkey sickness", alligator bites, or a speeding heart, people who have pain or have been ill for a long time, who like to sleep all the time or can't sleep because of worry or bad dreams, who are pregnant or "on the wagon" or have lost wives or husbands. Alice Snow is both a traditional Seminole and a cultural innovator who combines old and new methods of preserving and teaching "Indian medicine". Her record of medicinal plants and remedies is her contribution toward helping the Seminoles to hold onto their past while living in the present and moving toward the future. Though the book does not reveal the tribal doctors' secret healing songs, believed to empower the plants, it provides Seminoles with a reference handbook of plants; it also offers medical professionals, herbalists, and the general public an understanding of theworld of Seminole medicine."
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 The
Seminole Indians of Florida - Publisher's
Marketing: "This classic portrait of the Seminole people,
written at a time when their way of life was virtually unknown to
the rest of the world, was originally published by the Smithsonian
Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in 1887.
In 1881, Clay MacCauley (1843-1925) was asked by the bureau "to inquire into the condition and to ascertain the number" of the Seminole Indians of Florida. MacCauley subsequently spent three months in south Florida gathering information. When published six years later, his report was hailed by John Wesley Powell, director of the bureau, as "the first ethnologic exploration of the Seminoles of Florida ever attempted". It describes Seminole clothing and ornaments, the palm-thatched chickees in which families lived, economic pursuits, crafts, and other aspects of everyday life. This edition includes an introduction by William C. Sturtevant, the world's leading scholar on the Seminole Indians and the curator and ethnologist in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the department that is the successor to the Bureau of Ethnology."
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 Unconquered
People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians
- Publisher's Marketing: "Brent
Weisman explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture through information
provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents, and the
words of the Indians themselves. He explains when and how their culture
was formed and how it has withstood historical challenges and survives
in the face of pressures from the modem world.
Weisman adds a travel guide to publicly accessible sites throughout the state that tell of the unique and deep connection between Seminole history and the geography of Florida. For both students and general readers, Weisman combines scholarship from several disciplines with the perspectives of the Seminoles themselves into an exciting history of Florida's enduring Native Americans."
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Covington chronicles the 300-year history of the Seminole Indians in Florida. His account of their plight moves from their migration from Georgia and Alabama, through the three wars against the whites and forcible removal to Oklahoma Indian Territory of 90 percent of the survivors in 1858, to the current life of the descendants of the people who refused to relocate or surrender. Using manuscript and published sources, Covington writes a comprehensive history of these elusive Native Americans. Despite the existence of comparable books (Edwin McReynold's The Seminoles , Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1975, reprint; J. Leitch Wright Jr., Creeks and Seminoles , Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1987), this book will stand as the definitive monograph until a Seminole chooses to offer a Native American perspective."
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The Seminoles of Florida - Includes Seminole language.
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 The
Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict
- Publisher's Marketing: "The
Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all
the Indian wars fought by this nation. This illustrated history is
the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of all three wars.
Seminole War authorities John and Mary Lou Missall examine not only
the wars that were fought between 1817 and 1858 but also the events
leading up to them and their place in American history. Employing
extensive research that makes use of diaries, military reports, and
archival newspapers, they shed new light on the relationship among
the wars, the issue of slavery, prevalent attitudes toward Native
Americans, and the quest for national security.
Although fought in Florida, the Seminole Wars were a major concern to the nation as a whole. The first war, led by General Andrew Jackson, was part of an attempt to wrest Florida from Spain and had international repercussions that led to a lengthy congressional investigation. The second, which lasted seven years, took the lives of more than 1,500 soldiers and resulted in the forced removal of more than 3,000 Seminole Indians from Florida and the deaths of countless others. The third war, fought on the eve of the Civil War, was an attempt to remove the final remnants of the Seminole Nation from their homes in the Everglades. Underlying these conflicts was the nation's thirst for aggressive territorial expansion and the dangers of an inflexible government policy. The Missalls describe the wars as both a military and a moral embarrassment -- a sad and important chapter in American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and by Indian wars fought west of the Mississippi. Analyzing events of the wars against larger issues, the authors observe: "It seems as if the Seminole Nation was the nail being pounded by the hammer of American policy. What interested us most is why the hammer was swung in the first place.""
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 Andrew
Jackson and His Indian Wars - Publisher's
Marketing: "The removal of Native Americans to the Indian
Territory beyond the Mississippi River remains one of the most controversial
events in U.S. history, and the man most responsible and widely blamed
for this policy is Andrew Jackson. Hailed by The New York Times as
"the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time", Robert Remini
now turns his attention to the single most controversial aspect of
Jackson's long career. The first history to trace Jackson's involvement
in decades of Indian conflicts, this book takes us through Jackson's
entire life, from his early years as an Indian fighter in South Carolina
and Tennessee to his victory in the Creek War in 1814, to his presidential
years, when he set into motion the legislation that led to the Indian
Removal Act, and, eventually, the Trail of Tears.
Throughout, Remini demonstrates a masterful command of his subject and offers a thought-provoking and controversial defense of Jackson's strategy of removing the Indians. This book is sure to stimulate heated discussion among scholars and general readers alike. An exuberant history in the great storytelling tradition, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars is also a sobering reminder of the violence and darkness at the heart of America's past."
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Ironically, she shows, it was the reticent Mikasuki-speaking Seminoles (who call themselves i: laponathli: ) who developed the tourist market so successfully. By the 1930s virtually all of the Florida India population was engaged in the business. They participated in fairs and expositions in Chicago, New York, and Canada. In large commercial Seminole villages in Miami and Ocala, the antigovernment i: laponathli: sewed brightly colored patchwork, wrestled alligators, and opened their palm-frond chickees to the public, attractions that visitors to the state have enjoyed for much of this century. Though their exhibition economy originally was condemned by the government, it provided income for families as well as a lasting cultural identity for the people. Today, the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida promote their tourist activities to worldwide markets as "cultural heritage and ecotourism". Illustrated with 30 evocative photographs, West's book supplies an original and colorful social and economic history of an unconquered people. Often told in the words of the many Seminoles whom West interviewed, this book is the only one available on the topic of the cultural tourism activities of an Indian tribe."
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 Team
Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy - Publisher's
Marketing: "A GROWING CONTROVERSY in recent years has
arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The
Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City
Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and other images and names popularly
associated with Native Americans are still used as mascots by professional
sports teams, dozens of universities, and countless high schools.
This practice, a troubling legacy of Native -- Euro-American relations
in the United States, has sparked heated debates and intense protests
that continue to escalate.
Team Spirits is the first comprehensive look at the Native American mascots controversy. In this work activists and academics explore the origins of Native American mascots, the messages they convey, and the reasons for their persistence into the twenty-first century. The essays examine hotly contested uses of mascots, including the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians, and the University of Illinois's Chief Illiniwek, as well as equally problematic but more complicated examples such as the Florida State Seminoles and the multitude of Native mascots at Marquette University. Also showcased are examples of successful opposition, including an end to Native American mascots at Springfield College and in Los Angeles public schools."
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Patchwork:
Seminole and Miccosukee Art and Activities - 
Call number: SAC - TT835 .D712 2005
Patchwork
and Palmettos: Seminole/Miccosukee Folk Art Since 1820 : An Exhibition
Sponsored by the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, March 1 through
September 3, 1990
Legends
of the Seminoles - 
Florida
Folktales
Seminole
Children and Elders Talk Together - 
The
Seminoles of Florida - 
Like
Beads on a String: A Culture History of the Seminole Indians in
North Peninsular Florida
The
Seminole - 
Seminoles
by Edwin C. McReynolds
History
of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842
In
Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks
and Seminoles - 
Exiles
of Florida: Or the Crimes Committed by Our Government against the
Maroons Who Fled from South Carolina and Other Slave States Seeking
Protection under Spanish Laws A facsim. reproductiuon of
the 1858 ed., with introd. by Arthur W. Thompson.
Osceola's
Legacy
Florida
Seminole and the New Deal, 1933-1942
The
Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism
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High
Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty
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