Seminole Men From the Three Reservations at a Business Meeting with Superintendent of the Seminole Agency Kenneth A. Marmon at the Dania (Hollywood) Seminole Indian Reservation, 1953.

Seminole Men From the Three Reservations at a Business Meeting with Superintendent of the Seminole Agency Kenneth A. Marmon at the Dania (Hollywood) Seminole Indian Reservation, 1953.

This meeting at Dania to discuss tribal business includes two of the twelve tribal members who signed the 1949 Seminole petition for monetary compensation from the Indian Claims Commission: John Henry Gopher and Junior Cypress, along with the Superintendent of the Seminole Agency, Kenneth A. Marmon. Marmon originally encouraged the Seminoles to contact an attorney to file the claim.

From left to right: (seated in foreground) Willie Jones and Lonnie Buck; (2 standing to the left of table, front to back) Frank Billie and Junior Cypress; (seated at table, clockwise from left) Mike Osceola, Josie Jumper, Mr. Marmon, Frank J. Billie and John Henry Gopher.

Charles Barron

Image Number C017541, Department of Commerce Collection, State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.

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1953

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