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Title : Tuko-See-Mathla, a Seminole chief.
Series : Reference collection
Photographer : Ted Saylor Photography.
Image Number : Rc0-472
Date : 1843.
Notes :

Tuko-See-Mathla, also called John Hicks, once saved a number of white men from being killed after they had been taken prisoner in a raid near Georgia. When he supported the plan to move the Indians west he was killed by Seminoles who opposed the United States Government.

Published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, Philadelphia. Drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring establishment. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1843 by James G. Clark in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Transparency by Ted Saylor Photography.