The Seminole Indians originally lived in Florida swamplands and welcomed escaped slaves. The escaped slaves, called Maroons, combined African traditions with Native American customs. They joined the Seminole Confederation in 1812, but by 1841 almost all Seminole had been forced to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
An 1845 treaty required the Creek Nation to share land there with the Seminole, but the slave-holding Creek tribe proclaimed that no freed blacks or Seminole Maroons would be allowed to live in the Creek Nation or to bear arms.
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-Elmo
I never knew that was the origin of the arrows in the S.F badge. Never too old to learn.
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