government (mostly through Andrew Jackson, who organized continuous campaigns into Seminole territory), a core group of Seminoles fought to maintain their freedom and ways of life, and eventually became the only Native tribe never to sign a peace treaty with the United States – in other words, the only tribe to have decisively beaten United States military forces out of their homeland.Īs the years went on, the Seminoles continued to live peacefully on their own, hunting, fishing and trading with no real connections to the world of the white man.
Among many things, the Seminoles would become famous for their willingness to harbor escaped slaves and adopt them into their ways of life. These tribes mingled with one another and formed the group that would eventually become known as the Seminole tribe of Florida. When the war ended, the diverse group of tribes that comprised the Maskókî were brutalized and driven further South and East, into Florida, where they met native Floridian tribes who had also been oppressed and deprived of land by a sudden influx of white settlers. However, the Revolutionary War turned some Maskókî against the settlers, and others against each other. The Maskókî people lived peaceably with settlers – some tribes mingling, intermarrying, and even adopting some of the settlers’ farming techniques. The Green Corn Festival was also a sacred event, in which a spiritual bond was honored that connected the Maskókî people to the land and reminded them of their role as tenants and key inhabitants of their environment. Every year they hosted a Busk, or Green Corn Festival, to celebrate the new harvest, host games, dance, settle disputes, socialize and feast. Skilled farmers, avid sportsmen and great celebrators, these people had a largely democratic society and lived in close-knit family groups.
Founded on a network of creeks and streams, these communities were host to a people who belonged to the Maskókî linguistic family.
In the area now known as Alabama and Georgia, a widespread and loosely confederate community of about eighty villages prospered. A Piece of Our Mother: Differing Concepts of the Sacred and How to Keep it among the Seminole Tribes of Florida
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