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Title : Foke-Luste-Hajo, a Seminole
Series : Reference collection
Photographer : Ted Saylor Photography.
Image Number : Rc0-473
Date : 1842.
Notes :

Known as "Black Dirt" or "Black Craggy Clay." Although Foke-Luste-Hajo was described as a man always ready for a fight, he and six other chiefs were forced to sign the treaty of Payne's Landing in which Seminole lands were given up in return for territory across the Mississippi River. When the tribal council pronounced his death sentence, he fled to Fort Brooke where he remained throughout the war.

Published by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Drawn, printed & coloured at J.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1842 by J.T. Bowen in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Transparency by Ted Saylor Photography.