词条 | Seminole |
释义 | Seminole Oklahoma, United States city, Seminole county, central Oklahoma, U.S., east-southeast of Oklahoma City. Settled in 1890 as a trading centre for farmers and stockmen, it was known as Tidmore until 1907, when it was renamed for the Seminole Indians, on whose land the site was located. The city's population grew from about 1,000 to 35,000 in one year after the discovery of an oil field in 1926. Of the thousands of wells established at that time, only a few were functioning at the turn of the 21st century. The city's industries include petroleum refining, oil-field equipment, and the manufacture of clothing and sewer pipes. Seminole State College (formerly Seminole Junior College) was established in 1931. Inc. town, 1908; city, 1926. Pop. (1990) 9,251; (2000) 6,899. people North American Indian tribe of Creek origin who speak a Muskogean language. In the last half of the 18th century, migrants from the Creek towns of southern Georgia moved into northern Florida, the former territory of the Apalachee and Timucua. By about 1775 these migrants had begun to be known under the name Seminole, probably derived from the Creek word simanó-li, meaning “separatist,” or “runaway.” The name may also have derived from the Spanish cimarrón, “wild.” ![]() In an effort to stem further colonial encroachment and to avoid forced removal to the west, the Seminoles fought a succession of wars (Seminole Wars) in 1817–18, 1835–42, and 1855–58 (see Seminole Wars). As a result of the First Seminole War, Spain ceded its Florida holdings to the United States. In 1832 a treaty proposal that would have obligated the Seminoles to move west of the Mississippi River was rejected by a large portion of the tribe. The Second Seminole War was one of the most costly of the U.S.–Indian wars, with military expenditures exceeding $20 million. In 1838 Osceola and other tribal leaders agreed to meet the U.S. military under a flag of truce; the American forces broke the truce by imprisoning the men, and Osceola died in custody some three months later. Fighting continued sporadically for another four years, but the tribe eventually surrendered. The people were required to move to Indian Territory ( Oklahoma) and were resettled in the western part of the Creek reservation there. A few Seminoles remained in Florida. In Oklahoma the Seminoles became one of the Five Civilized Tribes, which also included the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Choctaw, all of whom had been forcibly removed from the southeastern United States by the federal government in the 1830s. For three-quarters of a century each tribe had a land allotment and a quasi-autonomous government modeled on that of the United States. In preparation for Oklahoma statehood (1907), some of this land was allotted to individual tribal members; the rest was opened up to nonnative homesteaders, held in trust by the federal government, or allotted to freed slaves. Federal policies effectively dissolved the Oklahoma tribal governments in 1906; changes in these federal policies resulted in the revitalization of the tribal governments in the mid-20th century. ![]() Early 21st-century population estimates indicated some 27,000 individuals of Seminole descent. |
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