Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-19
AMONG THE SEMINOLES.
PECULIAR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
OF THE REMNANT OF THE TRIBE.


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Ten wears ago the writer spent a year in
the peninsula of southern Florida. In the
inaccessible wilds of the great eyerglade re-
gion there were then existing two distinct
tribes OF the great Seminole nation of south
ern Indians.
The largest tribe was Seminole proper and
lived In what is known all over the state as
THE Big Cypress." dark swami stretching
across the peninsula near the northern end OF
the everglades There were then several
hundred of the warriors of that tribe. The
smaller tribe, consisting of some forty or fifty
warriors. staid ON a reservation near the head
of Pease creek and the Little Outblacoochee
river. The chief of that tribe was Chipco.
One night had an opportunity of making
Chipcos acquaintance at the little trading
post where lived a man named Collins, who
acted as government agent. We were out at
the little store in the dusk of the evening,
when suddenly two strapping warriors come
striding up TO the door. and each threw down
his pack of skins, which he had brought along
to barter for goods. Both grunted out their
salutations in broken English, and seated
themselves on a log near the store. which
was located near the public road, in the edge
of a little clearing surrounded by the bound
less forest stretching away for miles and
miles ON every hand.
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