Over the past couple of centuries, nature had gone through its divine selection where only the strong would survive, leaving remnants of different tribal cultures whose original tribes had been devastated by European disease, constant warfare, and the intruding of white settlers. These select few united for survival around 1700 forming the Seminole Tribe of southern Florida.

This is interesting because it gives an example of how nature makes its “natural selection”. The Seminoles, who had lived in peaceful contact with the white community for nearly a century, angered the U.S. with their willingness to harbor runaway slaves. This specific conflict ended up leading to the First Seminole War (1817-1818) where many Seminole were killed and enslaved by the U.S. army. I thought this was strange because all this conflict was happening in Florida and it wasn’t a state until the next year when Spain ceded it to the United Sates in 1819.

In 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which was best known for the “Trail of Tears”. The Seminoles boldly banded together and agreed to resist removal, and began to use guerilla war tactics in order to defeat larger and better equipped U.S. forces. The Seminole chief, Osceloa, is quoted in a brief summary of the Second Seminole War by Lewis Brown to have said, “We vow to fight until the last drop of Seminole blood has moistened the dust of his hunting ground.” With this quote, I could sense the determination of Osceloa to keep ‘their land’, and no better word could be used then ‘frustrating’ in order to describe the following years of conflict. Osceola’s mob ambushed and killed multiple U.S. soldiers, which led General Jesup to conclude that the Seminole were a worthy enemy. I thought this was cool because the Indian people were thoug

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