Seminoles - Native Americans Who Never Surrendered
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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of the Native American Civilizations continues with a video on the Seminoles - the Native American tribe that never fully surrendered to the American government, despite three Seminole Wars between the United States and the tribes which emerged from the Creeks. The video will focus on the history and culture of the Seminoles, the wars against the USA and one of their leaders - Osceola.
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Hey, I would really like a video about the Great Northern War or China's Tang dynasty. Great Channel, thanks for your great content!!
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Dudes how the fuck did you accept the narrator here mispronuncing the titular fucking tribe? Reupload this video with fixed narration please
So the Seminoles were apparently crazy enough to not surrender to an overwhelming force and they hunted alligators? I think we might have found the original Florida men.
Haha good one
Umm. Yeah? I mean they were literally some of the earliest inhabitants of Florida.
The spanish generals says that the natives of Florida are the most fearless and strong of the entire continent.
I see a man of culture.
the original florida men were the calusa. they had an entire settled civilization based around fishing and barely any agriculture. they fiercely resisted spanish incursion and iirc they killed ponce de leon. they unfortunately died out mostly of disease and the remainder were christianized and moved to cuba as florida was taken over by the british
Growing up in Florida, it’s crazy how many famous Indian names are incorporated into everyday life
Same here in North Carolina.
The same happens in all Americas
@@user-db7vy8sf2h yeah but in Florida it’s like every day stuff like In every day conversation
@U *Actual name of Tribe or sometimes American Indian(especially around reservations)
Same thing as wisco most our city names are native words/places. Muskego, Ashwabenon, Menominee, Milwaukee, Mukwanago, etc....
I once met a Seminole named Paul who was living in Colorado. He invited my sister and I into his off grid home for the evening. He had long red hair and big blue eyes. He sang to us, plus he had some of the most beautiful art pieces that were made from copper and stained glass. He was extremely talented artistically, so much so that he had written and sold out a musical. He was also really very kind. He told us that he didn't like being around people much but that we were always welcome back. We had such a nice time. I don't know Paul's last name and we were in such a remote part of Colorado that I could never find my way back to his house. He had such beautiful energy, he's one person I wish I could find so I could listen to him sing and admire his art again.
@@alzheimerjoebiden4266 most people who are legally recognized as natives nowadays have some percentage of European or African DNA. I personally know people who are close to full-blood Cherokee but they have telling features like light colored eyes or hair. It's tragically rare to find people who are full native nowadays. It's sort of what happens when one culture colonizes another and the colonized are forced to assimilate or die.
@@grimble4564 Purt nigh everyone got here before Columbus! View a galley of old faces & you will find a familiar one with a different comp[exion, perhaps.
Paul was a $5 Indian
I knew a guy named Paul, he used to be my plumber, he went prematurely bald and moved to Pittsburgh last summer. He also had a bladder problem and a bad infection on his toes.
@@grimble4564I'm sorry but you guys don't know what the original native Americans people look like, if you want to see damn near full blood indians you see them everyday, those are the folks you call black and/or African Americans.. they have 80% or more aboriginal blood in their veins, all these other people are just thieves to our culture....
I was born and raised in Miami. My dad made sure we understood Seminole origins (slavery included)and their heroic history. Hearing the name pronounced as 4 syllables made me clench my teeth but I'm so glad the tribe is finally being recognized for their unique place in history. Too bad others didn't find a defensible refuge where whites couldn't exploit/destroy who they were.
What is the correct pronunciation?
@@JemimaNta The anglicized version is SEHM-ih-noal (Seminole County, Seminole State College, etc.). However, the video - whether intentional or not - pronounces it more as one would in the MIccosukkee language - Sehm-ih-NOAL-ee. In fact, one of the three Seminole nations in Florida goes by "The Original Council of the Miccosukkee-Simanolee Nation."
@@MarcillaSmith thank you
As another Seminole Descendant, I agree
I’m a Florida native and I’ve never heard Seminole pronounced “Semin-Ollie” pretty sure it’s Seminole.
the name was given to them by the Spanish, that's why it's pronounced different than what you hear on TV.
I mean, like guacamole, you are both saying it wrong. Not seminol or Seminol-e "Seminol-aye"
I was going g to say the same thing. My dad was good friends with the Ocseola's. He shrimped with the Chief in Miami. They actually did surrender, but it wasn't until 1952. And it was under a flag of truce, while Chief Ocseola (the grandfarher) was in a South Carolina prison. Sad.
That's what I was thinking every time he said it
@@brettsteele7027 dates are wrong 1952??
The Seminole natives of the Jaguar Clan helped my family escape from slavery.We intermarried and still keep a lot of the same traditions today majority of my family still lives in Sanford Florida Keeping both are native African in Seminole traditions alive
that is so cool
That's nice.
@al red dog really? I love Mexico which area are they mostly found?
@mikhail Maimoona Howard I would love to visit your family, I’m from the Miccosukee/Seminole Panther clan from south florida
Bless your spirit. You're in gods favor. You're DNA survived the "parasitic draw". Edit: parasitic draw in this sense is the drainage of original culture and life from the "progression of humanity". The displacement of land and resources. And the fact that it's all being used by people without a good way to restore it.
Being Cherokee myself i can honestly and proudly say that it would be most wonderful to have this blood flowing through my veins also. Nothing but love and respect for these people and their ways 💯💖🙏
Every morning I wake up I thank my ancestors for the sacrifice they made so I can sit here I'm from the SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA BIG CYPRESS
I also remembered Florida State trying to charge the Seminoles a rental tax.The case came to an end when Chief Billie told them ok, but the turnpike goes through our land, we will just build a toll booth. That was the end of the case . This was in Broward County Florida. Love Chief Billie
"We are losing terrain for those damn americans, chief! What we must do?!" "So we gonna beat them in their own terms... We will become businessmen!"
*losing
And it worked
And casino owners 👍🏽
Capitalism always wins 👍
Ding ding ding ding ding, we have a winner! (They figured it out) The smart Indian tribes are negotiating with energy companies to build pipelines straight through the middle of their territory; and securing contracts to be the only ones allowed to guard them. Do you know how much a private security contractor makes?
Me at the 8 second mark.... He's going to say Seminoley the whole video.
Give the guy a break 🤣🤣🤣 He's obviously not from these parts lol Just let it ride...
It was a good piece regardless... and a good break from endless procession of videos on Rome. :::stab::: I'm just kidding these guys have plenty variety, absolutley love their work.
Welcome to the party, friend xD
He’s been narrating the Hellenes and Romans too long
@@williamthefloridano5290 they have variety but as you're stating the overwhelming majority are such.
The "e" is silent, it's "sem-in-ol". Another great, informative video. This channel is at the top of my list among a few other similar channels which are all excellent sources of military history. I also appreciate the effort to explain the politics from both sides of these historical clashes as well the smaller details which many other sources rarely include such as the importance of resources for the war effort which was critical for success on any battlefield. A good comander understood the importance of carefully selecting the route toward a field of battle, and the ability to protect baggage trains and lines of communication, as quite often a battle field could be several miles/kilometers wide. Ceasar's success as a tactician would not have been possible had he not been an absolute master at procuring food and other essential resources, not only for his soldiers, but also for thd horses and elephants and any other brasts of burden. An example of a detail most never even consider when we're enjoying these awesome videos is the need for, and extremely important aspect of all these ancient battles is blacksmiths. Without blacksmiths, and steel you won't last very long! Horses need constant care, a hobbled horse very quickly becomes a meal on four legs, and you can't have cavalry if your horses are in your belly! Blacksmiths were an absolut necessity for making and repairing armour, as well as many, many other mundane aspects of daily life. Anything that required steel was made by blacksmiths, nails for building seigeworks etc. I guess I really appreciate this channel because it rises above most other channels which focus on battles only and leave out all these really essential, and extremely interesting details. Thank you! Jack Von Bronzesnake Keswick (Lake Simcoe) Ontario Canada
Man just hearing the war-cries of our people fighting for our land and ways of life, it gives me goosebumps. Makes me sad n angry n proud all at the same time, it’s kinda hard to explain. We are still here✊🏽
EVERYONE is still EVERYWHERE.
@@petebondurant58 LOL don't downplay this guy just like the other side not the down play you everybody has a part to play in this history
I’m a Shawnee Native and I grew up in Oklahoma where many of us ended up. We are still here, that’s why I know the Seminole and I feel like being pedantic and saying that when they say their tribe name it ryhmes with “hole” not “holy” almost like “seminal”
That being said. I adore this content. I absolutely love these stories being told. As a Shawnee, your work on Tecumseh and his brother taught me things about my own history which I did not know. For that I can’t thank you enough 🙏
I agree. The content was great but hearing that mispronunciation was jarring every time.
Well not everyone speaks English the same way what's important is comprehending the words and understanding what he means to say.
They definitely messed up on the pronunciation. I live in Tallahassee where FSU is and the Seminole tribe is represented. Never heard it pronounced this way.
this channel does have a history of mispronouncing a lot of names...
As a Polish citizen I never heard Seminole story or how black men were finding their place in the indian territory. Awesome piece of history. I would gladly here more stories about Native Americans. Thanks!
Look up Tecumseh on this same channel! Really good series
It happened here too in Louisiana. More slaves from Haiti were brought to New Orleans in 1803 and we staged a revolt with the choctaws in 1803. We later became free people of color. We’re the creoles.
@@xocolatl3682 I've read that many an ex slave became land owners in Louisiana even before slavery was banned. Hearing stories like that always make me smile because they fought the system and won
Many of the tribes are blacks look it up not the pictures they show my great great grandmother in my mothers side is cherokee and my fathers side is creek
Bit of trivia: when the Miami warchief Little Turtle sued for peace, he ran into Tadeusz Koscuiszko in Philadelphia. The weary old fighters were effectively in exile from their homelands, but had great respect for each other. Little Turtle gave him a tomahawk pipe, and Koscuiszko gave him a pair of pistols for use on "the first man who ever comes to subjugate you"
Outstanding video with great information! Thank you!👍
Great video, haven’t learned anything about the seminoles since my 6th grade state history class, keep it up
And those 100 Seminoles that remained in South FL became the Miccosukee tribe and have their own reservation today. They inhabited what is the Tamiami Trail and set up shop and home along the trail that runs East from Miami, West to Naples. The Miccosukke’s are one of many different tribes that make up the Seminole nation. I’m a native of FL, from Miami. Absolutely brilliant video!
The seminole and miccosukee are separate tribe's with distinct languages.
It's so good to see someone comment with a little deeper knowledge! If I may underline what you're saying here, and as I understand it: - There are three "federally recognized tribes" of Seminoles. The largest is in Oklahoma. Then there is the Seminole Tribe of Florida (mentioned in the video as the 4,000 who own the casinos), and there is also - as you mention - the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida (400 members?). - Additionally, there is yet another group known as "Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation" which numbers about 100, and are the - and I mean this in the best way - absolute most stubborn holdouts of the lot! They refuse millions of dollars the US government has already awarded them, because they will give NO quarter. As far as they're concerned, Big Cypress National Preserve's >1,000 square miles are theirs for the US Park Service to defend for them to continue to enjoy. They refuse to develop a written language because it's not part of their oral tradition. Born in Gainesville, graduated in Tallahassee, at one time assigned to the armory in Brooksville, but mostly I'm just one of the side attractions around Orlando, currently on tour in Raleigh, NC
@@nikomineyv9927 yep,lol.
They didnt just become Miccosukee, they always were.
Miccosukees are different tribe Seminoles and they mixed there language together. I can speak a little of Miccosukee language but more fluent of Seminole/Creek language
I didn’t expect hard rock making a camio in this episode
Legit thought that was going to be the sponsor of this video.
each member of the Seminole nation gets check for over $100,000 according to my friend Mike Osceola, a former Chiefs son
I first thought it was an advertisement
I live in Tampa and noles were banking renting the name then decided to buy the name being they had only full casino rights in fl
if you lived in tampa you might not, I was wondering why the local seminole reservation is literally the hard rock cafe
Growing up in Indian Rocks Beach in Pinellas county Florida I was priviledged to learn much of the rich and fascinating history of the Seminole. We trekked through Indian lands and I was honored to be so welcomed by the Seminoles I met, and even enjoyed a traditional meal that included alligator tail. I made friends in particular with two of the men and ended up dating one of their daughters. Many years later, I went to see Beckah Shae perform, and she did an excellent rendition of "Seminole Wind" popularized by John Anderson. I liked her version a lot better, which can be found on KZhead. What an amazing people group. BTW, Andrew Jackson was a reaj jackass. God bless the Seminole.
To be sure jackson was. But do you know possibly why? He did things that were not right. But he did do one, he actually paid off the national debt in his term as president.
A truly awesome video! Great to see!
Thank you, being a native of Florida many of our roads, cities, and counties are named after these native people but the history of them is rarely taught. It's awesome to learn the back story of this beautiful land.
And it's criminal and genocidal foundation
@@billhanna2148 are u from Florida?
@@billhanna2148 not criminal. Maybe genocidal
@@billhanna2148 unfortunately this is the way of the world. All we can do is try to be better as individuals. No use re-litigating the past every time it's mentioned.
@@sauron7839 cool 😎 handle 👍 but I'm not trying to litigate squat just keeping it real and in the context...🤔 and btw it's so RELEVANT today too
Other than a few mispronunciations, I fucking love this as a Seminole. Seeing our history represented so well
It drove me crazy to hear Seminole, Micanopy and Chief Osceola pronounced wrong but somehow got Withlacoochee right.
How wonderful. I’ve only lived in Florida for 16 years. My son went to school here. He didn’t learn any of this despite the fact that he did a report on Andrew Jackson. He learned about “the Trail of Tears”; but never about the true Seminole. Blessings to you.
well least there was few mispronunciation in the video they did not have to show how uneducated person who made the video was by using a curse word
@Skip Mickmack don't you have klan meeting to be at?
@Denis Ashby You mean like the ancient Egyptians.
This is some of the best news i think i ve ever heard.....im usually the last know though....so no biggie....ROCK n ROLL SEMINOLES!!!!.....this made my year.....thank you
As a former combat Infantryman, my hat is off to those who fought and died bravely defending against federal aggression. 🙏⚡️
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Against truly impossible odds. Broken treaties abounds from a government supposingly representing the land of the brave and free. I thank warriors everywhere resisting unjustified occupation.
Ironic since you basically served in the Army that historically WAS that federal aggression. Honestly what a disgraceful soldier you are. Can't even be loyal to your own side.
@@ChrisJohnson-gz1vl Don't pretend you care about them. You feed off the spoils of that unjustified occupation every day.
@@EmptyMan000No he doesn't. You're delusional.
I have a tough time listening to any history of Native Americans. It starts out so good and gets so damn depressing towards the end.
The ending is the best part, the good guys win and America grows, bringing civilization with it.
@@CedarHunt You have to be joking. The colonizers are the "good guys"? The people who committed genocide? Are you really trying to justify the largest genocide in human history? Check your morals.
It hurts, but that's exactly why these kinds of stories need to be heard. I'm an American who loves his country, but that love must not blind me to my home's dark past. If I were to deny or ignore the misdeeds of my predecessors, then I wouldn't so much love the United States as a fictional version thereof. Knowing the truth does not make me hate the United States or ashamed to be an American. My idea of patriotism is a love of one's country that motivates one to make it better; learning about and acknowledging the less respectable parts of our past so that we may make things right is thus patriotic in my eyes.
Yeah but remember that Native tribes have been slaughtering each other long before the white men arrived. If you want to see how USA is like without white people just look at Central America now, their people longing to come to the USA.
I know, it really hurts.
As a Native American I enjoy when you make a video of our people’s.
Enjoy oklahoma!
Whats your real name man
Hoka!
@@delaval7767 o see the baby right there.
Be what they used to be. Give up the western name. I'm sure you're proud of your heritage, express it. The more you become like them, the more you'll lose your identity.
Thank you for this video!
Loved this! True history of the Americas.
I’m from New Orleans and I love seeing The Mississippian Peoples represented!!! Their spirit and energy still lives here. No doubt about it
Also, I hope everyone can now realize how much a peace of shit Andrew Jackson was
@@JoshuaBenitezNewOrleans Greatest karma is that he’s now in the face of the $20 bill
Most badass we've ever had for president
@@chrisbass6060 I believe that you may have forgotten about one Theodore Roosevelt....
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I grew up roaming the swamps of central Florida. Its an incredible experience to be able to run thr same swamps they did.
Leave their land then,pls.
@@MrUtuber29 b8
Great their gone is what your saying.
Loved wondering around the seams looking for listening trees the ones with those eat shaped seed pouches.
We still here. We’re all in Oklahoma now. Trail of tears cleared us out of Florida.
Fascinating stuff. I hardly knew any of this before!
from Seminole Elementary in Miami....much love and respect for this.
My people fought with the British, won many battles but eventually had to capitulate and were forcefully deported. Our group still speaks the language and my relative graduated West Point many years ago. Garinagu Nuguya!
I really wish the native americans a good rest of history!
The seminole were HALF BLACK
@@noneexistent2781 half? How do you know DNA from African slaves made up 50 percent of all members of the Seminole tribe
@@noneexistent2781 "were"? They still exist, and although all kinds of mixed people exists today all of the Seminoles are definitely not half African American
gg
MY ANCESTORS!!! thank you so much for finally making a video on the unconquered.
only ypu guys have the right to say to the non natives in america to go back to their country.
@@usamamasud9353 lol
@@usamamasud9353 no
@@usamamasud9353 well we all are from Africa lmao
@@JaMeshuggah yes
I'm from New Hampshire but I drove by that Hard Rock Cafe last year. I went for the Space X launch. There is something wild about all the people who live there, but I just wanted to see all the plants and animals. Finally tried surfing as an adult. Great video.
Seeing this video made me very happy as a half Seminole person it makes me happy getting Seminole history out there
Kings and Generals- thanks so much for having this series on the Native American struggles. I found this to be overlooked when I was in school. Learning about Tecumseh was a real treat.
My family has been in Florida since at least the 1830s. In that time, they lived alongside the Seminole peoples enough for my great-grandfather and grandfather to be welcomed to hunt on their reservations in the Everglades. Our family has always had a great respect for them.
It's not known real well at all but through much of the 16th and 17th centuries Natives were well respected. In publications they were seen as noble. In Washington DC they traveled openly and met with the founders who considered them friends. The problem was really when settlers kept creeping along the wide open plains and eventually, and at first unknowingly, entered the world of the plains tribes. That brought a lot of high profile, intense acts of violence against young settlers on their own land. Even then there were periods of peace stretching decades where nothing happened. But that truly ended when a young settler family was raped, tortured and killed by plains Indians in grusome detail. The young mother was raped in front of her young children and vice versa before being butchered alive. Overnight the dime store novels shifted to the Cowboys vs Indians trope and politicians in Washington DC couldn't really calm the storm that would come. Even then, the roughly 300 years of the Indian Wars was far less one sided than most believe. The bow and arrow was a superior weapon to the early rifles and sidearms. By the time repeating rifles and the Walker Colt arrived on the scene the French had been trading them to the tribes. So the Texas Rangers and the US Army thought rhey had a massive advantage and were quite shocked to see the Comanche and other tribes and bands field the same force multipliers they did at the exact same time. In reality it was the Spanish who killed off 90% of the Native Americans. The US just never found a way to keep a lasting peace with them. A few generals wanted them eradicated but they didn't have their commissions for long. The US never had a policy of genocide. It was simply a story of unfortunate acts on both sides that kept driving the violence.
@@RJT80 was this necessary >.>
@@comradekenobi6908 lmao
@@wutelgiwithagun8832 I think so
This was a great video!
An amazing story of a brave and strong people.
Love how Kings&Generals is showing love to my Native people's. My tribal affiliation is Navajo, but Native American Warrior Culture still burns bright in the U.S. Military.
Yup, you see some Native American symbology in many units' insignia. My favorite is the 45th Infantry Division- the Thunderbird Division.
You see it in sports too, that's why I never got the whole changing the name, PC, bs. When you have a indian chieftain as your mascot it's saying you're a great warrior, you're fearless, fierce etc.
@@cefb8923 well changing the names of bases namee after traitors is just common sense
@@a.m928 Secession is legal, the real traitors are not who you think they are
@@AdamFuller50 so your a supporter of slavery then ? The Confederate and all those affiliated were traitors who ambushed and attacled the US army
21:46" ...they adopted a new policy that basically amounted to 'Whatever man' ". Wasn't expecting that one
jackson: "get off ma lawn" buchanan: "whatever, man"
The most awesome story ever in American history. Lived in SW Florida for 10 yrs
Thanks for the information.
Chief Osceola is the National hero figure of many generational Floridians.
But Billy Tiger brought the tribe into prosperity.
There is also a Billy Bowlegs festival every year in Ft. Walton Beach.
Billy Bowlegs and Chief wild Cat my great great great Grandpa's. We're 2 of the big National hero of the war. Osceola was too cause of stabbing the peace treating and killing his best friend who wanted to sign the peace treaty.
Went to Osceola elementary in volusia county Florida. We sung the national anthem in school so I gotta agree with lostcommunication1
@@johnphillips2396 yes sir
As a member of the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe, I do enjoy and appreciate your content the wars Natives have fought. I can not wait till you finally do one on my own tribe. Till then I will devour all your content as I have been doing, great work.
Hello! I'm a member Bad River Band of Ojibwe! Nice to see a shout-out from Native friends/relatives! I'm mostly white, but I do share ancestry on my grandfathers side. He grew up on the res and told me stories how the nuns at his boarding school would hit him with a ruler when he tried to write with his left hand. But I hear that's a common experience with lots of elders who were taught in christian schools. I haven't visited the relatives up in Odanah in over 10 years. I live in Madison and don't drive so getting up to northern WI is a challenge. I wish I grew up near my tribe because I feel like I didn't get the full family/cultural experience. So yeah I've been in soul searching contemplation for the past several years on who I am and what my identity is. I wanted to reclaim and relearn Ojibwe culture, but have always been very self conscious about my white skin.
Thank you for documenting my peoples.
Hello Joan! How are you doing? I hope you are fine and staying safe?
They sound like amazing people! I hope to meet them all.
As an Indian (East) I wish our namesake American Indians good health, prosperity and more power to you.
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It helps to call them Amerindians
@@justinnamuco9096 technically, both native Americans and people from the indian subcontinent are both genetically asiatic.
@@Tsumami__ many of the seminoles were escaped slaves
You're Hindustan/Bharat not Indian. Your Asian people were brought to the Americas via the Manila Galleon as slaves of the Spanish. "India" needs to stay out American business beginning with maintaining their own national identity instead of engaging in commercial fraud.
I cannot express enough gratitude for your accounts of historical events and people all over the world. Keep up the good work man!
Wondeful video!! 👏🏼
This is some Amazing history right here
Eastern Band of the Cherokee avoided the Trail of Tears. Keep it up!
But only if they gave up their Tsalgi citizenship. There's always more to these stories than most know.
@@josephstorm6093 didn't know that, Wadoh.
Overall I loved this video. A couple things did stick with me though and bothered me. From what I read in “Florida Exiles” a book written contemporaneously with the Seminole wars, Osceola killed Thompson after Thompson stole and enslaved his wife. Not a lack of character. Also to say the army turned to “harassing” women and children, when in reality they attacked villages and held the survivors hostage to force warriors into submission, is too soft. Other than that, as a Floridian archaeologist, I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed seeing this part of history be told. And the inclusion of the African American aspect was great, it is a story often left out. Thank you, I hope I don’t offend with my comments.
That's part of the issue with covering history, we can never trust the opposing narratives. It's part of our human nature to side with our own. However, we can at least get the jist of the story and somewhat how things came to be as they are. I've always found ancient Greek history to be my favorite, yet the sources themselves often question the validity of the stories they tell. I find that especially ironic considering that Native American history is known for tall-tales due to their history predominately carrying on verbally. Of course this was beyond that point, just an observation. Human history is essentially just a frustratingly childish game of telephone. I'm certainly not questioning your knowledge on the subject, I have little knowledge of FL at all other than it's a humid peninsula, haha. Best wishes friend.
As a Native Floridian, and an Archaeological surveyor myself, I have to ask. Have you ever visited Silver Springs? The main spring head forms a small lake, and is the exact place where Osceola was betrayed and captured by the Army. A large bromze statue sits on the site today, in honor of the man. The Glass Bottom Boats are each named after a Seminole cheiftain, including Cheif Osceola and Cheif Yalaha. The history of the Seminole and Ft. King are major focal points of the boat tours. I worked there for many years, and actually cut my teeth as a surveyor on the Ft. King archaeological dig there.
I went to silver springs once on a school field trip but I was too young to know this history. Considering what you’ve mentioned I’d really like to go back and see the statue! Awesome to hear about your experience with Ft. King. I grew up down the road from the original path that now is part of 301, but I didn’t know the history until I got older. It’s truly all around us.
You offended me. Now apologize.
Colby Williams if you are a Floridian archeologist i have an artifact id like you to look at and see if you can identify it.
I've been to okmulgee Indian grounds in Macon Georgia I grew up around there. There is so much hidden history that we have either covered up or ignored in this area.. great to see someone paying attention to a great nation that we know almost nothing about
I'm from Macon as well, but unfortunately my family moved to the West Coat when I was only 7. So, lucky you, my friend !
Amen brother, imma GA boy myself, got native ancestry, It pisses me off so bad how they cover our beautiful southern/native/american history up and purposefully tell us not even half the stories. Native American cultures should be foremost on this land, we have so much to learn and gain from following in our indigenous relatives footsteps
I was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and went to many Billy Bowlegs parades. I never understood the connection until this video but I seem to remember Billy Bowlegs was portrayed as some sort of pirate. It was just a fun family day at the parade. Thanks for the walk into the history lesson of those days and the memories of my childhood.
The Seminole’s are the pride of Florida. Favorite part of Florida history is going over the native Floridian History. It’s very rich here, but a lot of people don’t know that.
As an African American myself from Florida, I loved learning about the Seminole wars. Especially the Black Seminoles that allied with them so survive against colonialism and became the most successful slave rebellions in the united states. Proud Gullah/Geechee Afro Seminole.
What are the freedmen family bands in the Seminole Naiton of Florida? I'm from Oklahoma I'm a Seminole Freedman too.
We have Seminoles in Bahamas too !!! 🇧🇸 Bowleg is a popular family name.
I learned it as the Gullah War. Love our shared histories.
If they had not murdered Osceola ....can only imagine how much more they would have won
Afro seminole do not exist in Florida let me repeat do not, I am from south Florida I constantly visit the tribe lands and let me tell you everyone there is pure native decent not one African, I believe this is made up history of old integrated society’s by the white man changing our view of history, although African were not treated bad by natives they also did not mix with them for obvious reasons
Heard there last standoff was at wekiwa springs love my Seminoles thank you for being strong
Man that was great I love the history I was wondering about the song roll roll Seminole wind and now I know where that comes from Love it
Great video, as always! Another interesting fact about the runaway slaves that joined the Seminoles: In 1693, king Charles II of Spain issued a royal decree, providing sanctuary for every slave from the northern english colonies. The objective was to increase the population in Florida and at the same time undermine the labor force of english plantations. The royal decree was formalised in 1733 by Charles II sucessor, Phillip V. The result was the founding of Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black settlement in the Americas.
Natives were there long before America nonsense
I love that Florida State University use the Seminoles as their mascot and the Seminole Tribe of Florida sanction it
If I understand the arrangement correctly, the Florida Seminoles tribe is paid royalties for the university's use of the name.
And that is how you honor a Native American tribe not steal their name and leave em out of everything. Seminoles were proud warriors.
@@alexscott821 That's not exactly true. They pay a very small subset of Seminoles, and the Seminole Nation is not okay with it. They made a shady af deal with people who did not have the ability to sign the name away, and they give a mere pittance of what they could.
Man, the mascot of the high school in the town south of me are known as the Tecumseh Savages...
@@mrhanekoma86 I don't know where the hell you live, but my town canceled a name of a school because it was called dixie. A land that is still referred to as such to this day. They canceled the name of the school because of the "racist heritage" but I don't understand that because it was the past and the place that I live in didn't even support the south during the civil war. That is like canceling the name of England because of the horrible stuff that England did. I have no idea how you live by a high school that has Tecumseh Savages as their mascot if they canceled the name of Dixie State University for representing slave owners.
my great grandma walked the trail of tears, she passed well before i was born but an aunt told me the trail earned its name. she also told me the warriors knew how to talk to the alligators, when they retreated to the swamp, they could tell them to attack the soldiers.
Yeah the alligator thing is made up
@@Anti_Septikum what i heard was from my aunt, she heard it from her grandmother who was in florida as a young girl. im going to believe them instead of you.
@@williambailey9917 try it out maybe you can go to the swamp and start patting them maybe they'll even give you a hug
@@Anti_Septikum lions tiger elephants snakes dolphins orcas and many other wild animals have been trained to do tricks in a short period of time. if you have lived within a few feet of an killer for a hundred years or more, your pretty much dead or have learned how to co-exist but im sure thats a bit above your head. maybe if you watched popeye rub their bellys putting them to sleep you could understand.
Some were able to get away on the trail of tears. Here in Missouri some found freedom. At least by not moving further west. No ill intended.
This was excellent and I’d like to see some more indigenous history videos from North America. As a Canadian, Louis Riel is a very interesting possible topic.
Growing up in central Fl most of our country’s and roads are named after all these tribes and peoples but the history was never taught. Really glad you guys made a video of it!
The history was taught, just not in your time as current institutional powers don't like certain aspects of it.
@@admontblanc yea the uprising and rebellion
The history is not pretty
@@tiptoe38 extremely violent, honestly alot of,war, battles,clan fighting and genocide.
Many people are trying to stop certain history from being taught in school.
Love your doing a video about the Seminoles. I'm a Florida boy born and raised and love my state's history hope y'all do more.
True
As a Floridian and St. Augustine being one of my favorite places to visit. When I visited Savannah and saw all of the British buildings I just kept muttering fucking colonizers. I’m also 50% Irish, so I might be slightly biased😂
The Seminoles remind of crazy horse and sittingbull. There all the greatest warriors to ever emerge on the battle field of victory!
Very good piece on the Seminoles
For a tribe who never surrendered to the Nation who never really lost a war is astounding I have much respect for that fighting spirit and yet little respect for the crimes against them perpetrated by our own government.
Vietnam and Afghanistan would like to have a word with you
We lost our asses a lot
They’re still doing it to other native that still exist, the goal is to turn everyone into the man with a suit It’s disgusting
How about the war of 1812?
The American Revolution had a majority of the Continental Army getting smacked around by the Brits the French were a major reason why the colonies won at all and then there’s most of the southern colonies supported the crown
These animations are reaching truly epic levels. Bravo!
Love the seminoles met a lot of beautiful people at a reservation in south of miami absolutely wonderful people. Been to a Seminole funeral and man I was honored to even be graced with an invitation from this womans family god rest her soul
You love really anything
@@matimus100 bro you think you’re a Viking
This story deserves to be on film 🔥🔥🔥
The lesson here is, if you've been put in charge of forcefully deporting an entire people from their homeland, maybe don't give their chieftain a rifle.
It’s ten hours because of Patreon btw (I think)
Which is why the government works tirelessly to strip us of our 2nd amendment rights.
@@newvocabulary that’s not a good comparison💀... they were fighting to keep their ancestral homelands and way of life from outsiders, gun laws in most states are fairly loose and no one is trying to take your land and way of life
@@newvocabulary when they actually decide to do that it wont be hard at all for them you brainwashed zombie
@@newvocabulary Based.
I’d love to hear more about the relationship between the African American slaves and the native peoples. That should prove to be a very interesting topic.
Its interesting and really varies in that some coexisted such as with the Seminoles as well as in the north and west but there were also some tribes that did practice slavery based on race. In the Civil War for instance the tribes in the south actually mostly allied with the Confederacy because they too didn't want to give up their slaves and some even had high ranks in the Confederate Army.
@@Spongebrain97 It’s a history that should be told.
There's a similar example of this happening with escaped African Canadian slaves in Halifax and Louisburg up in Nova Scotia being sheltered by the local Mi'kmaq
Weird history has a decent one
@Tobiah Rowswell: The story I wld really like to read/hear Plse advise Tks
Seminole Wind by John Anderson is a great song!! My grandma’s side of the family were Seminole.. she and her brother were named after Chief Osceola. I remember being a kid and my mama telling me about how they were the last and only tribe not to surrender to the government. I also remember her telling me how they lived close to the river and in swamplands to evade the government.
I named my dog after the Indian chief from F-Troop. He got run over by a dump truck.
It's natives in a America !
Great video! Would be really interesting to see a video on the Iroquois Confederacy!
This is some really great content! you never hear about this anywhere! thank you!
Sem-in-ol the "e" is silent.
😂 Facts...I don't think he's American so we gotta give him a pass.
Mate he absolutely butchers English pronunciation as well. He gets so many places names in England wrong, and even kings and famous figures. Just wild. I think it is actually a bot and not a human as clearly the K and G team do not ever correct him. You should see the comments on anything where he has to Derby.
Also: Osceola: I believe the C is silent, therefore no K sound.
@@railrunner01 Right...he can't be American like he's never seen a Florida St football game in his life😁
@@rebelcities8200 Damnit. Now that you said you think it's a bot, I can't unhear it. This is totally a custom AI.
Pretty awesome vid
Nice, nice, nice...very nice docu!
Much respect for the man whos people are gone, pushed from his home, bribed, but still has the heart to give his life and honour to kill his enemies untill the end.
Do you feel the same about the tribes that lived there before?
@@jboss119 I feel there's an insinuation there, care to explain what you mean?
@@ante5544sure.... unrealistic nostalgia.... Your turn.
@@jboss119 I still don't quite understand what you're digging at. The statement MrLoobu gave was one of admiration for not giving up the fight. While implicitly he's referring to the Seminole, it isn't a statement exclusive to them, and could, presumably, extend to the tribes that inhabited Florida before them
@@ante5544 His point seems to be that the Seminole were just as expansionist and militant as anyone and they conquered land, described in the video as "settling land", by killing and subjugating the people who were there before them. So the question is do the people killed by the Seminole deserve the same amount of respect being put on the Seminole for fighting the US?
Wow...this is a great video...it answered some questions that I was struggling to figure out. Thank you
I know seminoles and grew up around many and they are truly some of the most interesting people and the quiet ones are the fiercest
Seminole Tribal Citizen here in Oklahoma now, thank you for making this video.
This is fantastic. Thank you. The narration style is top notch, the way the narrator tells fact from established and verifiable facts mixed with the history according to those who have written it, delivering it in a way that makes telling the difference between the two easily identifiable. My favorite bit: Gaines led an expedition...the lands were not unknown, they were occupied and the US KNEW by whom...what Gaines led was a thinly veiled invasion. New subscriber.
Really good video more Native American history would be appreciated
Thanks for summarizing a vary dark time in American History. This story was and continues to be repeated all over the world in the Clash of Civilizations.
Hopefully with the right amount of good minded, good hearted people, God's servants, and light workers, America and the world can be usherd into the light. The light of The Most High and Christ.
Why do people make silly statements like this? Lol. Are you going back to Europe then? To right the wrongs of this "dark time" in history? Are you going to donate to native American tribes? Didn't think so. Enough with the silly, pointless and childish emotional reactions, and enjoy history for what it is.. HISTORY.
I don’t think the current Italians feel the negative effects of the battle of Allia as significantly as the families of the Natives who were forced on the trail of tears who’s family can still recount stories of what occurred. Can you be shocked that different people have different perspectives? Your idea of History is a lot more real for some than others.
You mean summarize an absolute amazing chapter in American history, right?
@@kimwalter8753 Keep hoping because that's not going to happen because that's not why America exists. It is one nation among several, it's not it's job to preach to the world and usher anyone into the light.
Wow super interesting!!!!
In the top 30. Yayy! Love you guys kings and generals!
K&G as always...... Engaging & Informative
Absolutely remarkable. They never left their land. Makes complete sense why hurricanes never destroy the area. Their magic has merit through the sacrifice they’ve made through immeasurable odds.
well now you have an amazing scrip ! who's gonna make the movie ?
I haven't even begun watching yet but THANK YOU. I live here and years ago read about the wars and think it needed telling in a big way. We take this land for granted and have trashed it and once, these people lived in a true paradise. Thanks again
We? Speak for yourself.
Must live around Orlando.
I love how factually accurate you were no bias just history great video
Nonsense a rubbish comment
@@matimus100 ever heard of sarcasm
The framing/wording in this is priceless >< kek, you funny little man, just don't rub your hands too much.. I can hear it from here.
My family come from the original Creek Natives that blended with the Seminoles in North Florida. My mothers family line anyways. Many many generations coming from Wakulla and Taylor County Florida.
I grew up on Lake Jesup in Seminole County, FL. What a pleasant surprise to see this video from this amazing channel.
Lived in Florida most of my life. Went to school here. This was great info! Street names, county names and land marks names make more sense.
another great story. love the name of one of resistance leaders billy bowlegs