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Minnie Moore-Willson was an author, women's club president, and naturalist from Pennsylvania who advocated for the Seminoles in Florida.[1][2][3][4]

Seminole background[edit]

Seminole Wars Lt. Richard H. Pratt, 1879

left in peace for a time, but exposed to local justice, incidents

She served as president of the Women's National Indian Association

state not feds [5]

The Seminoles of Florida, 1896[edit]

George Washington Manypenny Our Indian Wards Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor Charles H. Coe Red Patriots [6]

Friends of the Florida Seminoles, 1899[edit]

should be main article Friends of the Florida Seminoles

January 7, 1899 Friends of the Florida Seminoles in Kissimmee Rt. Rev. William Crane Gray Bishop, President; Rev D. A. Dodge; Senator Charles A. Carson Treasurer; James M. Willson, Secretary

George W. Wilson Times-Union and Citizen; Dr. Jacob E. Brecht Fort Myers agent; Francis A. Hendry; Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew (2)(world's first ordinance to regulate aviation in 1908[2]) Kissimmee Valley Gazette; R. H. Seymour Mayor [7]

The Indian's Friend calls for federal troops, answered by Times-Union and Citizen "...a reproach to the State of Florida that these things are so..."[8]

Tom Tiger's Horse[edit]

Tuestenugee[9] Cow Creek Seminole band in accounts of Frederick A. Ober[10],Pratt[11], Clay MacCauley[12], Wilson[13],and The Seminoles of Florida[14]

Cow Creek[edit]

"Mother of the Seminole Land Bill"[edit]

Works[edit]

  • The Seminoles of Florida. 1896. OCLC 45625917.
  • The Least Known Wilderness of America, The Everglades of Florida. 1917. OCLC 28612544.
  • Snap Shots From the Everglades of Florida, Jungle Life of the Seminole. 1917. OCLC 1743333.
  • The Birds of the Everglades, And Their Neighbors the Seminole Indians. Tampa, Fla., Tampa Tribune Pub. Co. 1920. OCLC 463788121.
  • History of Osceola county; Florida frontier life. The Inland press. 1935. OCLC 1820351.

Notes[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ "Everglades Digital Library".
  2. ^ "Mrs. Willson, Authority On Seminoles Dies". The Tampa Tribune. August 9, 1937. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Robison, Jim (2009). Historic Osceola County: An Illustrated History. HPN Books. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-935377-02-3.
  4. ^ "Everglades Indians Paragons, Says Pale Fairface Who Knows". The Sun (New York City). September 7, 1919. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Kersey 1974, p. 1.
  6. ^ Kersey 1974, p. 6.
  7. ^ Kersey 1974, pp. 5–6.
  8. ^ Kersey 1974, pp. 7.
  9. ^ "Florida's Most Respected Seminole: Tom Tiger". 10 December 1989.
  10. ^ Ober, Frederick A. (August 1875). "Ten Days with the Seminoles". Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. 14, no. 173.
  11. ^ William C. Sturtevant's "R.H. Pratt's Report"
  12. ^ MacCauley, Clay (1887). "The Seminole Indians of Florida". Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. p. 518.
  13. ^ U. S.Congress, Senate, Message From the President... Lands Upon Which to Locate Seminole Indians, p. 8 that's Special Indian Agent A. M. Wilson, 50th Congress, 1st Session[1]
  14. ^ Moore-Willson 1896, pp. 148–154.

References[edit]

  • Adams, Mikaëla M. (Winter 2009). "Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865-1934". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 87 (3): 404–435. JSTOR 20700234.
  • Covington, James M. (July 1985). "Formation of the State of Florida Indian Reservation". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 62–75. JSTOR 30149907.
  • Kersey, Harry A. (January 1978). "Private Societies and the Maintenance of Seminole Tribal Integrity, 1899-1957". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 56 (3): 297–316. JSTOR 30147442.
  • Wilhelm, Chris (Spring 2012). "Pragmatism, Seminoles, and Science: Opposition to Progressive Everglades Drainage". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 90 (4): 426–52. JSTOR 23264715.