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"As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the Seminole is a tribe made up of Indians from many tribes."  (Garbarino 13)  The Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America.  They lived in what ....

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... they began to migrate from Southern Georgia to Northern Florida in the later half of the eighteenth century.  The Seminole fled there because Spain owned Florida, and they hoped they would be free.  They shared the land with another group of Indians, the Apalachee and the Timucua, who spoke the Mikasuki Language.  (Seminole Indians 290)  By about the year 1775, they began to be known by the name Seminole, which is derived from the Creek word simanoli, meaning "separatist," or "runaway".  The name, Seminole, could also originate from the Spanish word cimarron, meaning "wild."  Also joining the migrants were Indian and Negro slaves, who fled ...