Seminole (Wild men or wanderers). A Tribe of the Creek Confederacy in Florida, they spoke the Muskoghee dialect. As a nation there were seven Tribes in Florida and two in Georgia. After Florida was ceded to the United States, the settlers were determined to drive the Seminoles therefrom, and through their influence had the government to enact legislation to remove them to other reservations. The Seminoles resisted until overpowered by numbers. A historian, in writing of this war, says : "They were fighting for their rights, their country, their homes, their verv existence."
