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Keywords: "Seminoles" (All words)
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Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort Mose

Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort Mose
Date
2013-02-18
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Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort Mose

Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort Mose
Florida's Underground Railroad: The Black Seminoles

Florida's Underground Railroad: The Black Seminoles
Date
2013-02-20
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Florida's Underground Railroad: The Black Seminoles

Florida's Underground Railroad: The Black Seminoles
Folklife Genre: Native American

Folklife Genre: Native American
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Florida is home to several Native American tribes, including the Seminoles and Miccosukees. Music is an essential element in many Native American ceremonies performed for hunting, harvesting, the changing of the seasons, and for other purposes. Songs typically combine vocals with a combination of drums, rattles, and flutes. Floridian performers of this genre in our collection include Josie Billie, Fred Beaver, and Billy Bowlegs III.
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Folklife Genre: Native American

Folklife Genre: Native American
Folklife People: James Billie

Folklife People: James Billie
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James Billie was twice chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (1979-2001; 2011-incumbent). In the 1970s and 1980s, he led an effort to make the Seminole Tribe self-sufficient through business investments, including hotels, bingo, and gambling operations. He also initiated a cultural heritage and enrichment program designed to educate young Seminoles about the traditional language and practices of their tribe. James Billie himself is a guitarist and songwriter, whose songs often combine Native American themes with the style and instrumentation of folk music.
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Folklife People: James Billie

Folklife People: James Billie
Folklife People: Susie Billie

Folklife People: Susie Billie
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Susie Billie was a healer and medicine woman of the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. Billie received most of her training in folk medicine from her grandfather and uncle, who were medicine men of the tribe. Her knowledge included herb gathering and identification, natural cures, physical and spiritual healing, and the use of medicine songs. Billie received a Florida Folk Heritage Award in 1985. She participated twice as a master artist in the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program, passing her knowledge on to her daughter Agnes Cypress and to Mary Johns
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Folklife People: Susie Billie

Folklife People: Susie Billie
Folklife Subject: Basket Making

Folklife Subject: Basket Making
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Historically, baskets have been essential items in households and on farms, especially in the days when all crops were harvested manually. Workers used these sturdy but lightweight containers to gather up cotton, vegetables, or other items and carry them from place to place. Methods and materials for constructing baskets varied widely. White oak baskets were common in the cotton-growing sections of northern Florida, while Seminoles farther south typically made baskets from palmetto. African-Americans sometimes made baskets from sweetgrass, a traditional method transferred from Africa.
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Folklife Subject: Basket Making

Folklife Subject: Basket Making
Folklife Subject: Seminoles

Folklife Subject: Seminoles
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The Florida Seminoles migrated into northern and central Florida beginning in the early 1700s. The word "Seminole" formed from a combination of the words cimarron and simanoli. The Spanish term cimarron means "runaway" or "renegade." The Muscogee term simanoli means "those that camp at a distance." Following a series of wars against the United States in the 19th century, only about 200 Seminoles remained in Florida. The tribe obtained federal recognition in the 1950s and 60s, and has long been active in Florida politics, business, and culture. Seminole traditions that have been passed down into our own era include crafts like palmetto basket-weaving and doll-making, patchwork textiles and beadwork.
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Folklife Subject: Seminoles

Folklife Subject: Seminoles
Football players

Football players
Date
1972
Collection
Football players

Football players
Football players

Football players
Date
1955 (circa)
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Football players

Football players
Football players and fans

Football players and fans
Date
1972
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Football players and fans

Football players and fans
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Florida's Underground Railroad: Fort MoseFlorida's Underground Railroad: Fort MoseFlorida -- Fort Mose Site
African American history
Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763
Free blacks
Soldiers, Black
Fugitive slave communities		/fmp/learn/floridiana/thumbnails/3637.jpg
Florida's Underground Railroad: The Black SeminolesFlorida's Underground Railroad: The Black SeminolesBlack Seminoles
Seminole War (2nd) (1835-1842)
African American history
Underground railroad
Fugitive slave communities		/fmp/learn/floridiana/thumbnails/3736.jpg
flg_nativeamericanFolklife Genre: Native AmericanInteractive ResourceIndians of North America
Seminole Indians
Creek Indians
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Apalachicola Indians		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_genre.png
flp_billie_jamesFolklife People: James BillieInteractive ResourceFolk Music, Seminole/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png
flp_billie_susieFolklife People: Susie BillieInteractive ResourceSeminoles/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_people.png
fls_basket_makingFolklife Subject: Basket MakingInteractive ResourceWhite Oak Basket Making, Seminole Baskets/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png
fls_seminolesFolklife Subject: SeminolesInteractive ResourceSeminole Tribe of Florida, Native Americans, Creek, Black Seminoles, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Miccosukee Tiribe of Indians of Florida, Mikasuki, Yuchi, Yamasee, Muscogee/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/folklife_subjects.png
N044148Football playersFootball players/fpc/general/n044148.gif
N044147Football playersFootball players/fpc/general/n044147.gif
N044151Football players and fansFootball fans
Football players		/fpc/general/n044151.gif