Transcript The Seminole nation

By Colin Benedict
• -1600 lived in
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Georgia,
Alabama, South
Carolina and
Florida
- Today the
Seminole live in
Florida and
Oklahoma
-Lived in houses
called Chickees
• - made pendants,
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beads and canoes
- some female
Seminole wore
twelve pounds of
beads a day
• - Male Seminole wore leggings and breech
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clothes
- Female Seminole wore leather dresses and
moccasins
- hunted bear, deer , turkey, duck and alligator
- gathered greens, nuts and roots
- planted corn squash, pumpkins and beans
• - Europeans brought many diseases
and many people in the Seminole
community died
• - 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce
stumbled upon Seminole land and he
claimed it for Spain
• - Seminole boys learned to hunt and
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trap while the girls learned to sew and
tend to the garden
-Seminole children had to protect
crops from small animals
• - the Seminole tribe did not go to war very often
• - weapons were tomahawks, clubs, spears, darts
, blow guns and bows and arrows
• - a clan was considered a family
• -there was once many clans now only eight
remain panther, deer, snake, bird, otter, wind,
bear and big town
• - lived on everglade islands called hammocks
• - lived in houses called chickees
• - there are many Seminole legends
• - Seminole legends tell about how the clans
were created
• - Oceola and medicine man Abacka were
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both great Seminole leaders
- they fought against the U.S. army so
that they wouldn’t be removed to the
reservation
• -the Seminole tribe is working very hard to
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preserve their culture
- there are six reservations five of them are in
Florida and the other is in Oklahoma
• - Seminole only speak two languages today
• - one of them is Muscogee Creek and the other
is Muscogee
• - the Seminole tribe has many ceremonies and
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rituals
- two of them are the stomp dance and the
green corn ceremony
bibliography
http://www.bigorrin.org/seminole_kids.htm