User:Donald Albury/Bands of Seminoles

Bands in Florida

-in Big Cypress in 1841
 * Sam Jones band
 * Hospetarke's band
 * Seminoles (the Prophet's band?)
 * Spanish Indians"-p.55

-after 1841: -p. 56
 * Seminole
 * Creek
 * Tallahassee
 * Mikasukee
 * Yuchi
 * Hichiti
 * (in 1847) 4 "Choctaw" warriors

Old Seminole interviewed in Oklahoma by Swanton (before 1922) stated some Choctaws went to Oklahoma with the Seminoles-p. 56

Mikasuki (Florida) Seminoles interviewed in the early 1940s denied there were ever any Choctaws in Florida. Seminole tradition "vaquely remembered" the Caloosa, but conflated them with the Spanish.-p. 56

Seminoles insisted Chakaika and his band were Seminoles, not Caloosa, and that they spoke Mikasuki- p. 59

Bands in Mahon: 7-8
 * Alachua band original Seminoles
 * Tallahassees
 * Mikasukees
 * Yuchis (only non-Muscogean)

Mahon: 318
 * 42 Seminole warriors
 * 33 Mikasukis
 * 10 Creeks
 * 10 Tallahassees