Facts: - death place: fort moultrie , south carolina , us - nicknames: billy powell - native name lang: mus - native name: asi-yahola - tribe: seminole - resting place: fort moultrie , south carolina , us - caption: osceola by george catlin - death cause: quinsy or malaria - death date: 30 january 1804 - birth date: 1804 - name: osceola - image size: 250px - image: osceola.jpg - birth place: tallassee , alabama , us Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of osceola .
osceola -lrb- 1804 -- january 30 , 1838 -rrb- , born as billy powell , became an influential leader of the seminole in florida .of mixed parentage , creek , scots-irish , and english , he was raised as a creek by his mother , as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system .they migrated to florida when he was a child , with other red stick refugees , after their defeat in 1814 in the creek wars .in 1836 , osceola led a small band of warriors in the seminole resistance during the second seminole war , when the united states tried to remove the tribe from their lands in florida .he became an adviser to micanopy , the principal chief of the seminole from 1825 to 1849 .osceola led the war resistance until he was captured in september 1837 by deception , under a flag of truce , when he went to a us fort for peace talks .because of his renown , osceola attracted visitors as well as leading portrait painters .he died a few months later in prison at fort moultrie in charleston , south carolina , of causes reported as an internal infection or malaria .