MICCOSUKEE INDIANS

THESE FOLKS ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES IN THE U.S. AND WERE PART SEMINOLE. BY THE 18TH CENTURY THE MICCOSUKEE APPEARED IN RECORDING THE BRITISH WHICH WAS CENTERED AROUND THE BRITISH WHICH WAS CENTERED AROUND THE VILLAGE OF FLORIDA. LIKE OTHER SEMINOLES THEY WERE DISPLACED DURING THE 1817 -58 SEMINOLE WARS. THE HISTORICALLY OCCUPIED GEORGIA (TENNESSEE VALLEY). THEY LATER SPLIT AND WENT TO THE CAROLINAS AND ONE GROUP WENT TO NORTHERN ALABAMA. DURING THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES THEY SETTLED IN FLORIDA. AFTER THE SEMINOLE WARS THEY MOVED TO SOUTHERN FLORIDA ON A RESERVATION. SOME OF THIS TRIBE JOINED THE SEMINOLES AND OTHERS WERE DISTINCT FROM EACH OTHER.

THEIR LANGUAGE IS ENDING AND THE CHILDREN AREN'T LEARNING THE LANGUAGE. THEIR CHILDREN TODAY GO TO SCHOOL, GO ON HUNTING /FISHING TRIPS WITH THEIR FATHERS, FINISH CHORES AND PLAY. LIKE SOME SEMINOLES THEIR HOUSES WERE CALLED CHICKEES. IF THEY LIVED IN THE EVERGLADES THEY BUILT THEIR HOUSES ON WOODEN STILTS. TODAY THEY LIVE IN REGULAR HOUSES. THEY HOLLOWED OUT CANOES FROM CYPRESS. THESE FOLKS LEARNED AGRICULTURE EARLY ON AND PLANTED CORN, BEANS, AND SQUASH. THEY MADE BEAUTIFUL BASKETS, MADE WOODEN CARVINGS AND BEAD WORK. THEY TELL THE STORY OF THE GREEN CORN DANCE TO THEIR CHILDREN AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED.


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