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In 1823, the United States government decided to settle the Seminoles on a reservation in the central part of the territory. [4] A meeting to negotiate a treaty was scheduled for early September 1823 at Moultrie Creek, south of St. Augustine.
Under Green, the tribal government, which currently employs eight people, was established in 1994 and their reservation was resettled in 1996. [8] Green's daughter, Amanda Vance, became tribal chair in 2016 after Green became ill. [2] Traditional Cahuilla singer, Tony Andreas, grew up on the Augustine Reservation in the 1930s and 1940s. [5]
[4]: 178 Weedon apparently preserved Osceola's head in a large jar of alcohol and took it to St. Augustine, [4]: 181 where he exhibited it in the family drugstore. [4]: 187 Captain Pitcairn Morrison sent the death mask and some other objects collected by Weedon to an army officer in Washington.
The Seminole reservation originally encompassed what is now Seminole County, a roughly 15-mile strip between the Canadian River and North Canadian River, a total of 360,000 acres (1,500 km 2). [9] The United States urged the Indians on reservations to adopt subsistence agriculture, but less than half the land was good for agriculture, and a ...
Macapiras or Amacapiras – Known only as refugees at St. Augustine in the mid-17th century, in the company of Jororo and Pojoy peoples. [41] Mayaca people – A small tribe in the upper St. Johns River watershed, related to the Jororos, and taken into the Spanish mission system in the 17th century.
Dade Monument, St. Augustine National Cemetery The Dade battle (often called the Dade massacre) was an 1835 military defeat for the United States Army.. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 the U.S. was attempting to force the Seminoles to move away from their land in Florida provided by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (following the American annexation of Spanish Florida see the Adams-Onis ...
The Salcedo House was a dwelling constructed in St. Augustine's First Spanish Period (1565–1763).By the end of this period the house belonged to Alfonsa de Avero. Avero, her sisters living nearby, and their families left St. Augustine with other Spaniards when Florida was transferred to the British with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.