The Seminoles used natural resources in every aspect of their lives. Shelter was made from the materials and supplies around them like saplings, leaves, and small branches. Sometimes the Seminoles were called Powhatans. The Powhatans were farmers, they did not move around like other Indians. Some Seminole villages grew crops for a living by growing enough food to trade with other tribes.

Seminole men wore breechcloths. Seminole women wore wraparound skirts, usually woven from palmetto. They ate game like turkey, rabbit, deer, fish, and turtles. They ate crops that they farmed like: corn, squash, beans, rice, and pumpkin.

The weapons used by the Seminoles included, war clubs, knives, gunstock clubs, bows and arrows, spears and axes. The Europeans introduced muskets and then rifles.

Seminoles celebrate Indian Day in September. Their traditional music includes use of rattles, hand drums, water drums, and flutes. They speak Muskogean and they the Seminoles are their own nation.

The Seminoles were a group of Native Americans who were not originally a tribe. In the 1700s many Native Americans in the Carolinas were driven off their lands by explorers and settlers. These Native Americans travelled to Florida. When the Spanish came to Florida, they brought many diseases that the Native Americans did not have immunity too. The Native Americans that travelled from the Carolinas and the the Florida tribes that had almost been wiped out by the Spanish merged together to form the Seminole Tribe. These people formed villages and towns.

During Colonial times, the Seminole developed a good relationship with both the Spanish and the British, but after the American Revolutionary War, things changed for the Seminoles. Settlers began to move to Seminole lands. When the Seminoles started accepting African Americans trying to escape slavery into their tribe, things turned bad between whites and the Seminoles.

In the early 1800s, President Andrew Jackson invaded the Seminole territory to recover former slaves. The Seminoles fought back and this became known as the First Seminole War. When America took control of Florida from the Spanish, Andrew Jackson ordered the removal of the Native American tribes living there. When the Seminoles fought back, this became known as the Second Seminole War.

The Seminoles put up a fight. By the ens of the war in 1842, the government had spent $40,000,000 on the war. Almost 4,000 Seminole were relocated to Oklahoma. A few hundred escaped to the Everglades. The Florida Seminole are the only tribe in America that never signed a peace treaty with the U.S. Government.

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