Students will meet native Seminoles and can inquire about which tribe individual members belong to. Storytellers Dr. Betty Mae Jumper and Carol Cypress will tell stories on the Children's Stage with references to clans and the creation of the earth.
Children inherit the clan of the mother.
When the last female in a clan passes on, the clan is considered extinct. Several historical clans, including Alligator, are now extinct. The Panther clan is the largest clan in today's Seminole Tribe of Florida. The story of the creation of the earth, as told by Seminole leader Betty Mae Jumper, storyteller Carol Cypress, and other elders, refers also to the formation of the Seminole clans. Birds, animals, reptiles, insects, many different living things.