The Seminoles of Florida

By Minnie Moore-Willson

Book Overview

A people's determination to remain on ancestral land drives this illustrated account of Seminole history, culture and resistance. Against government pressure, broken treaties and expanding settlement, the Seminoles defend not only their independence but a way of life rooted in intimate knowledge of the Everglades. Historical narrative and advocacy combine to reveal the human stakes behind removal policies, land rights and the struggle for cultural survival. Encounters in camps and mission communities bring the work's ethnographic detail into close view. Social organisation, religion, medicine, food, dress, hunting and ceremony are described alongside oral traditions and language, presenting a community marked by self-sufficiency, hospitality and fierce protection of its autonomy. Reverence for ancestral homes and graves deepens the account, while the surrounding wetlands emerge as lived territory: understood, navigated and sustained through inherited knowledge rather than treated merely as a remote backdrop. Quoted records, biographical sketches and eyewitness-style observations give the historical argument texture and immediacy. Illustrations preserve details of people, places and customs, while an extensive Seminole vocabulary provides an unusual linguistic record. Moving between documented conflict and closely observed daily life, the work challenges accounts that reduce Indigenous history to warfare alone, showing how identity endures through language, memory, custom and attachment to land. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9309339144
• ISBN13: 9789309339141
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"