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    The Black Seminoles, or Afro-Seminoles, are an ethnic group of mixed Native American and African origin associated with the Seminole people in Florida...
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    Treaty of Camp Moultrie with the Seminoles, seizing 24 million acres in northern Florida. They offered the Seminoles a much smaller reservation in the...
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  • "The Black Seminole" (stylized as "the BLACK seminole.") is a song by American rapper Lil Yachty. It was released on January 27, 2023, as the intro track...
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    increasing pressure on the Seminoles until they struck back, starting the Third Seminole War of 1855–1858. Black Seminoles History of Florida Indian Campaign...
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  • 1870 and 1914. The unit included both Black Seminoles and some native Seminoles. However, because most of the Seminole scouts were of African descent, they...
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    The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place...
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    specials and marathons on national outlets featuring prominent Black voices. The Black Seminoles of Nacimiento in Mexico hold a festival and reunion, known...
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  • Afro-Seminole Creole (ASC) is a dialect of Gullah spoken by Black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico. Afro-Seminole...
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  • Seminole Freedmen, as well as Black Seminoles who held land next to Seminole communities. In 2000 the Seminole chief moved to formally exclude Black Seminoles...
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  • reservations. The Tribe includes some Black Seminoles, including 50 living on Fort Pierce Reservation. The Seminole Tribe currently has six reservations:...
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    Revolution. Both Black Seminoles and maroons lived with the Seminoles in a feudal-like relationship; the Black Seminoles paid the Seminoles with a percentage...
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    Boggy Island was an autonomous black Seminole village that was settled by Central African slaves from Kongo. Black Seminoles settled near the Boggy Island...
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    000 Seminoles who were forcibly removed from Florida to Indian Territory, along with 800 Black Seminoles, after the Second Seminole War. The Seminole Nation...
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    1914, the Black Seminoles were removed from the Fort Clark reservation, but some of their descendants still live in the county. The Seminole Indian Scouts...
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  • Mascogos (category Black Seminoles)
    descendants of Black Seminoles escaping the threat of slavery in the United States. After the forced relocation of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles from Florida...
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    The foods of Black Seminoles in Florida and Oklahoma are influenced by Gullah rice and bean dishes and Seminole foodways. Black Seminoles cooked rice,...
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    and Georgia by the Gullah; an off-shoot of this is Afro-Seminole Creole spoken by Black Seminoles mostly now in Mexico and Brackettville, Texas. Louisiana...
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    First Seminole War and a treaty with Spain, Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821. Under pressure from US settlers, Seminole and Black Seminoles began...
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  • Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil...
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    Black Hebrew Israelites (also called Hebrew Israelites, Black Hebrews, Black Israelites, and African Hebrew Israelites) are a new religious movement claiming...
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    to Spanish Florida seeking freedom. The Seminole Nation accepted Gullah runaways (today called Black Seminoles) into their lands. This was a southern route...
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  • spoken in Florida In addition, Afro-Seminole Creole is spoken by Mascogos in Coahuila, Mexico, and by some Black Seminoles in Texas and Oklahoma. This disambiguation...
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    John Horse (category Black Seminole people)
    John, was a man of mixed African and Seminole ancestry who fought alongside the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War in Florida. He rose to prominence...
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    (Trick Daddy) United States portal Atlantic Creole Bilali Document Black Seminoles Bristol slave trade Coastwise slave trade Colonial South and the Chesapeake...
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  • Encyclopedia Britannica, Black Seminoles have also been known as Seminole Maroons or Seminole Freedmen and were a group of free blacks and runaway slaves who...
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    led a group of Seminoles and their Black kinspeople to Mexico. They sought freedom from Creek domination and hoped that the Black Seminoles might get liberty...
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    Wewoka, Oklahoma (category Cities in Seminole County, Oklahoma)
    County. Founded by a Black Seminole, John Coheia, and Black Seminoles in January 1849, Wewoka is the capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Wewoka's...
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    Indian Territory in the 1830s are recognized as Black Seminoles. Many were formerly part of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, but have been excluded since...
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    most Seminoles and Black Seminoles, facing starvation, were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Perhaps fewer than 200 Seminoles remained...
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    arriving in later years. While sometimes called "Black Indians", the descendants of Black Seminoles identify as Bahamians, while acknowledging their connections...
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