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Books

• Bial, Raymond.  The Seminole.  New York: Benchmark Books, 2000. 
• Bland, Celia.  Osceola: Seminole rebel.  New York: Chelsea House, 1994. 
• Blassingame, Wyatt.  Seminoles of Florida.  Tallahassee, Fla.: Dept. of Agriculture, 1959. 
• Cohen, Myer M.  Notices of Florida and the campaigns.  A facsim. reproduction of the 1836 ed., with introd. by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.  Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1964. 
• Covington, James W.  The Seminoles of Florida.  Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1993. 
• DeVane's early Florida history.  Sebring, Fla.: Sebring Historical Society, 1978-1979. 
• Ervin, William R.  The Seminole War: prelude to victory, 1823-1838. Holly Hill, FL: W & S Ervin Publishing, 1983. 
• Fairbanks, Charles H.  Ethnohistorical report of the Florida Indians.  Tallahassee, Fla., 1957. 
• Kersey, Harry A.  Pelts, plumes, and hides: white traders among the Seminole Indians, 1870-1930.  Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975. 
• Lancaster, Jane F.  The first decades: the western seminoles from removal to reconstruction, 1836-1866. 1986. 
• Moore-Willson, Minnie.  The least known wilderness of America.  Kissimmee, Fla.: Claud F. Johnson, 1917. 
• Mulroy, Kevin.  Freedom on the border: the Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas.  Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1993. 
• Oeffener, Barbara D.  Chief: champion of the Everglades, a biography of Seminole Chief James Billie.  Palm Beach Fla.: Cape Cod Writers, Inc., 1995. 
• Pratt, Theodore.  America's no-surrender Indians. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Pub., 1959. 
• Riordan, Patrick.  Seminole genesis: Native Americans, African Americans, and colonists on the southern frontier from prehistory through the Colonial era. 1996. 
• Snow, Alice M. and Susan Enns Stans.  Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.  Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2001. 
• Weisman, Brent R.  Like beads on a string: a culture history of the Seminole Indians in northern peninsular Florida.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. 
• Weisman, Brent R.  Unconquered people: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 
• Wright, J. L.  Creeks & Seminoles: the destruction and regeneration of the Muscogulge people.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

Articles 

• Blackard, David M.  "The Seminoles: Resiliant Runaways." Forum.  Fall 1992, p. 10-15. 
• "Florida's Emerging Seminoles."  National Geographic, November 1969, p.716-734. 
• "Florida's Seminoles."  Miami Daily News.  Reprinted from Staff Writer Cecil R. Warren's articles.
  • Vertical file--INDIANS--SEMINOLES (General) Folder II. 
• Gassaway, Carolyn.  "Black Indians in the Seminole Wars." South Florida History, Winter 1998-99, p. 10-17. 
• "'Give us twenty-five years’: Florida Seminoles from near termination to self-determination, 1953-1957."  Florida Historical Quarterly, v.67, p.290-309. 
• Goggin, John M.  "Indians in Florida."
  • Vertical file: INDIANS--SEMINOLES (General) Folder II. 
• Hann, John H.  "Late seventeenth-century forebears of the lower Creeks and Seminoles."
  • Vertical file: INDIANS (other)--A-L. 
• Kersey, Harry A.  "When moral imperatives clashed: Andrew Jackson and Osceola."  Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, Summer 1995, p. 11-15. 
• Knetsch, Joe.  "Southeast Florida in the Third Seminole War: Roads, Scouts, and Expeditions--Part I."  Broward Legacy, Winter/Spring 1999, p. 38-45. 
• Knetsch, Joe.  "Southeast Florida in the Third Seminole War: Roads, Scouts, and Expeditions--Part II."  Broward Legacy, Summer/Fall 1999, p. 22-34. 
• Mahon, John K. "The First Seminole war, November 21, 1817- May 24, 1818." Florida Historical Quarterly, summer 1998, p. 62-67. 

• "Missouri volunteers and the Battle of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837." Florida Historical Quarterly, Oct. 1991, p. 166-176. 
• Peithmann, Irvin.  "Notes on the present status of the Florida Seminoles."  Southern Folklore, September 1959, p.155-168. 

• Polk, Brian L. "Lessons from the wilderness: Factors that affected the United States Army's campaign in Florida during the second Seminole War." Broward Legacy, vol. 15, n.1-2, 1992, p. 36-42. 
• Porter, Kenneth W.  "Origins of the St. Johns River Seminole: were they Mikasuki?"  Florida Anthropologist, vol.4, no.3-4, Nov. 1951, p.39. 
• Smiley, Nixon.  "The First Floridians--A Trail of Tears." The Miami Herald, Sunday, July 4, 1976, 14-L. 
• Straight, William M.  "Dr. Jacob Ernst Brecht: Missionary, physician, and friend to the Seminoles."  Journal of the Florida Medical Association, v.80, n.9, Sept. 1993, p. 605-612. 
• "Unforgotten threat: Florida Seminoles in the Civil War."  Florida Historical Quarterly, v.69, p.300. 
• West, Patsy.  "Reflections--Slavery's ugly legacy."  Seminole Tribune, March 14, 1997, p.3. 
• "The white man's ways are catching up with Florida's Seminoles." Tampa Bay Times (formerly titled St. Petersburg Times), October 19, 1969, p.18-26.

Websites

• Florida of the Seminoles
• Seminole Tribe of Florida