The Seminoles

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and Native Americans of the land would take place soon. The U.S. began a policy of taking or buying land from the Native tribes. By 1813, some of the tribes rose up against white settlers and against other tribes that supported white settlement. The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the longest and the last of the US’s Wars of Indian Removal fought. It was fought at the east of the Mississippi River. It was the first guerilla style war fought by the US Troops. After the US withdrew from the fighting in 1842, an uneasy peace lasted for fourteen years.
Their descendants remained isolated in the Everglades until the late 1800s, when white traders, Christian missionaries, and the US government agents began to enter their territory again. Since the 1920s, lost more and more of their hunting lands to tourists and settlers and were slowly forced into a wage economy. They became agricultural workers in the vegetable fields of South Florida, and tourist attractions, in ...

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