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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminoles have a rags-to-riches story
Posted on Friday, April 27 @ 03:11:47 PDT (3606 reads)

AUTHOR: Sue Reisinger, Seminole Corporate Counsel

Several times last autumn, the Florida Seminoles' efforts to buy Hard Rock Cafe International Inc. hit a snag. Some tribal leaders balked at spending nearly a billion dollars for the hotel/restaurant/casino franchise; they didn't want to hear advice from outsiders, such as Wall Street investment bankers, to go ahead with the deal. It was tribe general counsel Jim Shore -- the first Seminole to graduate from law school -- who saved the day and the deal.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminole Homes are called chickees
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 20:41:14 PDT (33149 reads)

Seminole Indians lived in a home called a Chickee.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminole Nation changes tribal enrollment
Posted on Wednesday, July 19 @ 16:39:09 PDT (7553 reads)

Tribal enrollment requirements for the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma are changing.

In a July 2000 referendum election, tribal members voted to require a one-eighth quantum of Seminole blood as a part of enrollment requirements. Former open enrollment requirements did not specify blood quantum as a part of the process.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminole Tribe of Florida Overview
Posted on Thursday, March 31 @ 01:05:32 PST (28992 reads)

As the name says, the Seminole Tribe of Florida is from the state of Florida.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: The Seminole Wars
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 06:44:26 PST (3299 reads)

The First Seminole War

Following the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain, American slave owners came to Florida in search of runaway African slaves and Indians. These Indians, known as the Seminole, and the runaway slaves had been trading weapons with the British throughout the early 1800s and supported Britain during the War of 1812. From 1817-1818, the United States Army invaded Spanish Florida and fought against the Seminole and their African American allies. Collectively, these battles came to be known as the First Seminole War.

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TNB->Seminole Tribe: Jim Crow legacy still disrupts Oklahoma Seminoles
Posted on Tuesday, March 05 @ 22:44:48 PST (10733 reads)

Keywords: freedmen black indians Seminole tribe Jim Crowe laws Seminole Nation in Oklahoma Freedmen band Indian slaves Seminole people

Mary Pierpoint / Today Staff / Indian Country Today

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- The ugly head of racism is still alive and well in Indian country. Thanks to racist policies in the early 20th century, a part of the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma, has found itself in the middle of a racial tug of war.

Members of the tribe with African roots are finding themselves in danger of being disenfranchised from the tribe to which they have been fiercely loyal for centuries.

Known as the Freedmen, the "black Indians" have been a part of the Seminoles' proud history and have fought shoulder-to-shoulder with tribal members since before the tribe was called the Seminoles.

In recent years, the strong tie between those with African roots and a group of "blood" Seminoles has become strained, so strained in fact that after passing a referendum to disenfranchise the Freedmen, the Seminole Nation found its tribal council was no longer going to be recognized by the federal government until Freedmen rights were restored.

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