King philip seminole biography
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By Jim Robison from interpretation Winter 2013 edition interpret Reflections Magazine
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Ee-mat-la
Not to be confused with Metacomet.
Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 - 8 October 1839) was a Seminolechief during the Second Seminole War.
He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation,[1] and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839.[2]
He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize."[3][4]
His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Joe Knetsch (2003). Florida's Seminole wars, 1817-1858. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 104–105. ISBN .
- ^Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr.The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
- ^""LETTER—No. 57". Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, George Catlin, (First published in London in 1844)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ^"The Seminole Longshirt The Seminole Longshirt" 19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing, M. E. (Pete) Thompson and Rick Obermeyer, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
External links
[edit]- Ee-mat-la, Catl
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Wild Cat (Seminole)
Alachua band (c. 1810–1857)
Wild Cat, also known as Coacoochee or Cowacoochee (from CreekKowakkuce "bobcat, wildcat"[1]) (c. 1807/1810–1857) was a leading Seminole chieftain during the later stages of the Second Seminole War and the nephew of Micanopy.
Early years and family history
[edit]Wild Cat's (Coacoochee) exact year and place of birth is unknown. Seminole scholars believe he was born between 1808 and 1815 on an island in Lake Tohopekaliga, south of present-day Orlando.[2] After the United States purchased Florida from Spain in 1821, tensions mounted between the Seminole and new white invaders, who took Seminole cattle ranches.[3] Because Seminoles allowed slaves to live in their own family compounds and to work cattle, black slaves from neighboring Georgia did escape to Florida.[3] Members of the powerful Wind clan, Coacooche's parents were King Philip (or Emathla) and his wife from the Micco Nuppa family.[4] Wild Cat may have had a twin sister who died at birth. As a twin, he was regarded by Seminoles as having special gifts. Before the Second Seminole War began, he and his family moved to a Seminole village along the St. Johns River in northern Florida, along with other