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The Cody Enterprise And The Park County Enterprise
Cody, Park County, Wyoming
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The Seminole Indian tribe, once a powerful force that fought the US government, is now reduced to about 225 members and will be moved to a 21,000-acre reservation on Florida's west coast. The article describes their physical appearance, customs, and traditional housing.
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Only Pitiful Remnant Remains of Seminoles Who Once Defied the United States Government.
The Seminole Indians are to be moved to a reservation on the west coast of Florida--an area of 21,000 acres. Though partly under water, the tract is deemed of adequate extent, inasmuch as there are only about 225 Seminoles left.
This is the melancholy remnant of what was once a powerful tribe, which owned the whole of Florida and fought with the United States government one of the most vigorously contested wars in our history.
The Seminoles are notably handsome people and their young women are the prettiest of all Indian girls. There are no white half-breeds among them. So strong in the tribe is hatred of our race that, if a Seminole woman were to have a child by a white man, she would be likely to be put to death.
Around their necks the women wear many strings of beads of cut-glass, which they buy from traders. Sometimes a squaw is adorned with as much as six quarts of these beads, and even the girl babies are loaded down with them. The women pierce as many as ten holes in the upper rim of each ear to hold pegs of wood.
The Seminole house is of peculiar construction, having a roof and floor, but no sides. Its framework is of palmetto poles, which support a platform three feet from the ground and a roof of palmetto leaves. It is all one room, open to view from without, and one might imagine that here was the limit of nonprivacy were it not that the Seminole dwelling is customarily hidden in the jungle. - Philadelphia Ledger.
Typical Seminole House.
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West Coast Of Florida
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tribe reduced to about 225 members; to be moved to 21,000-acre reservation.
Event Details
The Seminole Indians, remnant of a powerful tribe that once owned Florida and fought the US in a major war, are being relocated to a reservation on Florida's west coast. Descriptions include their handsome appearance, aversion to white intermarriage, women's bead adornments and ear piercings, and open-sided palmetto houses hidden in the jungle.