Seminole Nation

The nation that my group was assigned was the Seminole nation. My part of the presentation was to talk about the brief history of the nation and the interactions it had with other native nations. While I did not find this part necessarily difficult, I did learn a lot of new information. For example, while researching the Seminole nation, I learned how it all started due to pressure from the Upper Creek nation, which forced multiple other nations to move to Florida to start a new life (Weisman). Also, I did not know how the Seminole nation was split up due to the Seminole wars and how the majority of Seminoles forced to move to Oklahoma and a small group hid in the Everglades (Weisman). All the history I found on the Seminoles, I found very
When Andrew Jackson became president, he issued the Indian Removal act, which would in turn force thousands of native off their homeland and to be relocated to new lands (Weisman). This act played a huge part in the Seminole nation since they were adversely affected by this federal policy (Weisman). The Seminoles were forcible removed from their homeland, due to the Seminole wars, which was brought on by the Seminoles taking in slaves (Weisman). With the loss of the war, they were forced to move to Oklahoma in a very Trail of Tears like death walk, which would result in many Seminoles deaths (Weisman). This was seen in many other native nations as well, for example the Cherokee nation were forcible removed from their lands, just like the Seminoles were (Trail of Tears). Due to the Indian Removal act many Seminoles would die and be forced to move to new lands, but they did not only die on the death walk (Weisman). Any also died trying to defend their homelands from being taken
This first act of war was called the First Seminole War and unfortunately it would not be the last war (Weisman). The next time Jackson came, he was the president of the United States and he issued the Indian Removal act to forcibly remove the Seminoles from Florida, but the Seminoles did not want to leave (Weisman). Instead, they decided to protect their homeland and fight the United States in a guerrilla like warfare (Weisman). This would go on for many years and would result in four different wars and while the Seminoles would end up losing and being forced from their homeland, they still did everything they could (Weisman). This is very similar to many other nations that fought to protect their homeland. For example, the Lakota who stood up the United States army and killed Custard. There are many instances of Native nations protecting their homeland, but most of them were unsuccessful. Even if the Natives were successful in warding of the settler’s attacks they had to deal with multiple attacks on their sovereignty as