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Seminole IndiansEffects on European Settlers and The joined States.Timeline of Seminole account1528-Spain lands in Florida for first time (Cabeza de Vaca),1817-First Seminole War.1819-Spain cedes Florida to the United States.1832-Second Seminole War begins.1835-Osceola is captured by Andrew Jackson.1838-Osceola dies in Federal Prison.1842-Second Seminole War ends.1845-Third Seminole War.1907-Oklahoma Enters the union with most of the residents from the southeast part of The United States.In June of 1528 Cabeza de Vaca and the Spanish came to what is now known as Florida for the first of galore(postnominal) trips. They came capturing the women and children along with ane governor of the Seminole Tribe. The Seminole asked for their tribe members back. Spain gave them the women and children merely not the governor. Spain responded by attacking and chasing the Indians across the swamps putting to death only one Indian. The Spanish attacked once again and only killed one Indian ag ain. The Spanish fled to their boats escaping Florida. The Seminole had mounted their first of many defenses against European Settlers that would wreak havoc on The United States of America in the 19th century. Who are these light climb people who come tour landThey arrest our party boss and perplex away our women and childrenWe ask for our people back, and they gave us our women and children, but not our chiefThen they attack us, not defeating us they flee in terror, killing one manThey say our land and our people are distressingThey attacked us once more but our strong warriors held up They fled to their ships and dead soulThese light skinned men were foolish to try to push us around on our landThey killed two of our tribe members and a Spanish commander in battleThis poem was called Foolish White community and was inspired by Alvarez Nunez Cabeza de Vaca from Relation of Alvarez Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.Seminole is a word that means wilderness or those who camp at distances. It is equal to the American word frontiersman. The Seminole were a tribe that broke off from the Creek civilization of Georgia. The Seminole were from the southeast piece of the United States. The tribe lived in houses called chickees (see drawing one)When white people came to colonize, as time went on, they referred to the Seminole tribe as part of the Five Civilized Tribes. The other four tribes were the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the Creek, and the Cherokee.