Unconquered Florida Seminoles | Untold Stories 

How are you called a"squatter" on your own land? The illogical brain damage of the colonizers is unreal.

I enjoyed this post w/t exception of the presumptuous theory that captured Africans learned about farming from the plantations owners. African tribes on the Western Coast were mainly agricultural cultures long before the European planted his first seed in the earth.

If you have ever set foot in the Florida Swamps you can understand why they could never be defeated or pushed out of this unbearable terrain

We're still here & Aboriginals, are not indians, slaves My father was Aucilla + I don't need a Hard Rock Cafe to know I'm a Native of Turtle Island in my heart & soul it can never be removed by colonizational citizenship .

Being born and raised in Naples FL I highly respect and love the Seminole culture. They are extremely tough people who have persevered through so much striff and their still here today. Amazing!

How can natives be "squatters with no rights to the land"? That fight should be revisited.

We need more American Stories of our Native people - social media garbage is drowning them out and their history

There is a tribe in Coahuila, Mexico called the Mascogo - they are descendants of Seminoles and runaway slaves. They have a community in Musquiz. The Mexican government gave them sanctuary during the 1800s.

I cry inside when I see true stories like this. My people cry out from their sleep!

The seminoles and their history is criminally untold

There are African and Native alliances throught Louisiana also. As well as enemies that hunted each other. Some fought for the European colonist. They fought against the French and Spanish colonialism. Started maroon communities in the swamps around New Orleans. We intermingled and intermingled. Many documented stories about these occurrences.

I’m a Floridian and am appalled at the way our Native Americans have been killed, abused, herded like cattle and used as sideshow attractions for the enjoyment of vacationers. On the other hand I am in awe of the resilience and ingenuity of The Seminole Tribe. Nothing pleases me more than to see them prosper tremendously from their gaming operations which are absolutely top notch. I have a difficult time accepting the justification that was stated at the end of this video that “without our treatment of The Seminoles they may have disappeared”. While there may be truth in the statement it is nonetheless sickening to hear those words.

Just out of interest why do the earliest pictures show dark skinned curly hair and now they are the opposite?

My grandmother was a Seminole! 1500 white men to 100 natives and they fought for 3 years! This is amazing. My grandma was born in 1934. Omg! Why am i just knowing this! My grandma could sew her ass off too. She used to make clothes. 🙏🏾

To say that all the Indians in Florida came to be known as Seminoles is an overly broad statement. Muscogee-speaking and Euchee-speaking Creeks stayed behind in the panhandle after all three Creek Wars, although their cultural distinctiveness became weaker over time. It is possible there were still a few holdouts in the early 20th century, near the Shoal River.

I really enjoyed learning about the Seminole people- this was great!

I grew up with these very fine people and respect them and culture very much. The government tried to stick it to them Just like all the Native Americans. These Great people got the government good. I would love to see these folks tell the the government we have enough money to buy the the whole state of Florida now get the hell out. Just to see how that feel..Huh?????

I was told by my aunt before she passed away that my family were descendants of the Creek Indians. I was amazed! Thank you for this video! Tears of happiness I had knowing that they were able after a long while be successful in business, yes they did survive!

A family member man married a Seminole named Belle and my family always said I looked like her yes we’re Black

This is crazy because I just did an ancestry DNA test and I found that I have cousins in Haiti and in Mexico. All lineages of my family come "black" slaves and I even still live in the town that my ancestors settled in right after slavery. Some of us intermarried with natives.

We the dark skin people were always here not runner slave but hunted for our land

How can anyone do what they done to natives and call themselves a proud Americans. What a shameful way of building a nation

I wish we could have gotten the story from more of the Seminole people. There is tremendous satisfaction knowing they now thrive as a contemporary tribal group.

I've always admired these people that couldn't be conquered.

We will never give up. Seminole

This stories bogus, my family is Seminole. How could 100 fight off thousands for years. All those Black folk from down south are still Seminole my family. They literally act as if all the Black Seminole disappeared. Lies.

I met an American Indian lady in Brisbane Australia. She said she was Seminole.

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Learning about the 1715 treasure shipwrecks off the east coast and J.Dickinsons "adventures" with the Ais Indians brought me full circle to learn about the Seminole Tribe and the 3 Seminole wars.. What a story. I had no idea they had a hand in the building of Alligator Alley.. I'm glad in the end they became billionaires they deserve every single penny.

This is why history needs to be reported with the truth. Instead of lies and dishonesty Call it what it is Thanks taking not thanksgiving

Very informative and enjoyable video. Thank you

The word Siminole is a variation of our Creek word Simi Noli which means lives with animals or Ranchers. Some of the things said in this video is not exactly true, but as usual it fits the white mans narrative concerning our people. Osceola is the spanish name for Ocilla, his true Creek name. It means land of two springs where he was born in now days the town of Ocilla, Ga. The Siminole people are Creek people that moved to Fla after the Creek civil war.

This is sad 😥. May GOD Bless my People.

Yamasee were not runaway slaves. They were a tribe from what is now south carolina and georgia. The Yamasee wars preceded the Seminole wars. Yamasee were Black Indian tribe

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Thanks for this information

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Seminoles in Florida continue to be abused by the state government. If that's not enough, non-native Americans heap abuse on them in public and private. I live in Florida. I see this happen all the time.

Thank you

Enjoyed this

Black people were here way before Columbus. Even in 1619, those 20 female slaves and children came from the West Indies.

"Seminole" is a corruption of the word "cimarron", which means "run away". Africans didnt join the Seminoles, they were the Seminoles. Over time creek indians adopted the name "Seminoles"

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I’m here because my father always said our bloodline was Seminole. This explained our ties to Florida. Our family moved to Georgia.

Awesome history of Florida,,love me some Florida 🤙🏽

Loved it.

I respect you n ur ancestors Mr. Hanson

This was such an attention holding video. Thanks 😷🍹

Watching this pissed me off so bad!!!!!!

He is not being truthful . The word Seminole means runaway in referring to the black who were enslaved, who ran to the south (Florida ) instead of falling the north star (underground railroad). This is why we must do our own research.

We need many here

The aborigines were not All wipes out some live on today…..

The Spanish mixed with the Indians whereas the Anglo Americans killed and separated them into reservations until this day.

They will not tell it with truth

These is heartbreaking. I knew it would be. Sorry I cannot finish watching it. 6:42

Is this series available to purchase?

The trail of tears. 😪

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Bartram's , Travels in Florida 1774-1776 is an excellent resource on Creek Indian culture and agricultural practices . I myself am decescend from both the Seminoles (Tigertail's band) and the white colonists who fought against them .

The Spaniards didn't wipe anyone out. Those people are still here,but there color changed by nature. The wiping out is an illusion. Some of those Spaniards are about as dark skinned now as the Seminoles we're back then.

i loev this story

A resilient & beautiful people! 💚 But dont mess with them!👊

I'm a white guy, but before that I'm a florida man. My grandma learned how to sew, and learned nursing from Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, who happened to be the first Seminole to learn to speak, read, and write English, as well as the first and so far only chairwoman the noles ever had. This is a beautiful video, but you have a few errors regarding choice and culture.

How can indigenous people be squatters?

I just started to listen to this and had to stop to text something i remembered from a child my father told me, we are CHOCTAW and they got moved in the 1800's to CHOCTAW national territory and lost thier home land because of a treaty that was dishonored "DANCING RABBIT" my father told me that when the Spaniards came to concor them they rode up on horses, met the indigenous people on the bank of some water, word was they said "we are here to capture you and enslave you "is what it sounded like, anyway the tribe was in thier canoes and the chief stood up and said "you will have to come in the water to get us" and the chief turned and paddled away soo the invaders tryied to follow them, but after the horses waded out soo far maybe some gators showed up and took care of them, the chief and his tribe escaped because they calmly turrned and left over the waters,apparently ey concored no one but escaped thier would be oppressers, i don't know anything about the tribes in florida but he told the story with excitment soo i wondered if it really happened, i live in Louisiana and we have gators here because we have swamps and they thrive, its hot and steamy here some times and sometimes very cold with snow and ice, the worst is the flooding, but we clearly have 4 seasons and springtime is beautiful, we joke about the gators pulling santa in his pireaux, a flat boat with only one person to sit in, we have an accsent farther down south because they speak french, the food is good and my dad would say you can eat everything here if you starve to death its your own fault, glad to know they escsped when the spaniards came, we have tribes here to and they should have done the same, we got soo many gators, everyone can have a suit case, purse, boots, belt,hat band, and wallet and never miss a gator, like you would think you could get the population down but guess not, we would have invited them into the water also.

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My great great grandfather was one of the first Whites allowed to settle on the Seminole land. He was a moonshiner, and became good friends with several chiefs. We had a beautiful collection of headdress, sacred pipes, and many beautiful clothes that were given to my family in trade. Several years back, the collection was donated back to the Seminole nation. What they didn't want was given to the University of Florida.

To me any native is family ❤

Can someone tell me how to find out my native heritage.I really would appreciate the opportunity to learn my life lineage. Thank you.

The Chicora hid in the swamps too.

I have ancestors who settled in Florida during the 1800s and into the early 1900s. It bothers me so much to think that they most likely engaged in some less than savory behavior regarding the native people. My family made it as far south as Charlotte County, so they weren't directly involved in this video's events, but they still had worked their way south from Georgia on lands that natives lived on. 😑

This story is told in Exterminate all the Brutes by Raul Peck. The Seminloes technically never surrendered but were decimated nonetheless.

Henry Perrine was murdered by Calusas- so they hung around for a long time. The Timucua lived among The Spanish and travelled with them when they evacuated Florida for Cuba after British conquest

Colonizers have a hard time knowing what happen here, BEFORE they invaded.

20:20 there's no mistake that she made her quote at that exact time that is fate

My Great-Grandfather was 100% Seminole native and i didn't know that Seminole natives are Black native Americans, they settled here thousands of years ago when they first migrated as Moors FACTS

You guys really need to show the real people not want to be me

Seminole means runaway Seminole Wars or Gullah Wars was a war waged by Black Americans against slavery for over 100 years.

They welcomed those people-(the slaves) That’s cap…those people you call slaves are aborigines..lol…the truth shall make u free

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Dude wtffff I live in Florida and have tamiami right through my town like wowwwe

This is another amazing story I just wonder 💭 how these people went from being a melanated race to white

I watched a 60 Minutes (I believe) piece where the chief of the Seminole tribe received 60mil from the US government and immediately kicked all of the Black Seminoles out so they would have a bigger cut for themselves, taking "Indian giving" to a whole new level 😉 I wonder how robbing those people of what they fought for has worked out for them in the long run🤔

What about the hurricane around 1928ish???

12 tribes

we need to be educated on the owens valley paiute indian war.. those paiutes and there war chiefs need to be rememberd.!

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Long Live The Seminoles, And Miccasukkee

There were more than one race of Indian Nubian(not only runaway slaves brought up from south America) descent and Asian descent but nobody likes to talk about that fact. Remember the Olmecs.

Ty very convenient

Purchase land for ppl that ..they already owed..

Well it has been told that these semionals Indians were actually native dark skinned people (black) mixed with people from a French colony which made the Indian... It's also said that majority of enslaved black skin people were already here on this land when the whites arrived and a specific number of slaves actually came from Africa... It's not to far fetched.. we've always been lied to

Offering reservations to someone on there own land. Him heap big lies. As usual their skin has been lightened.

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Florida what's up

No mention of the other reason for the Seminole Wars of the free Blacks and the runaway Blacks that lived among them and fought with them that the plantation owners wanted them returned.. to bondage. This story is very slanted in its interpretation!

Thank you for the information. A bit "white" in outlook, but oh well...

One of the biggest mistakes was trying to help settlers. Indigenous were good enough when you couldn’t navigate the lands alone, and were to ignorant to understand the languages, and different ways of living these lands provided. When settlers needed help. They were helped. As soon as they were done helping they used, abused, and threw the Indigenous to the ditches.