Map of Florida Showing Settlements of the Seminole Indians, 1880

Map of Florida Showing Settlements of the Seminole Indians, 1880

This map, drawn by anthropologist Clay MacCauley, indicates the locations of some of the Florida Indian groups living in South Florida during the late 19th century. He groups them into distinct communities. One interesting observation is that most of the Northern settlements are connected by waterways, while the more Southern settlements are relatively landlocked. This environmental setting may have made these Indians--who mostly spoke Miccosukee--more politically distant from their neighbors.

Clay MacCauley

The Seminole Indians of Florida, Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithson Institution, 1883-1884

Print Edition: Government Printing Office

Online Edition: Project Gutenberg,

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19155/19155-h/19155-h.htm

1880

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