The Indian Advocate. (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 1, 1900 Page: 4 of 32
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161 ' The Indian Advocate.
have his way. The broken treaties of the past the Seminole
has not forgotten. The old chiefs are as proud as the most
imperious king. They regard these lands as their own and
cannot understand the government's claim. They say "what
right has the big white chief at Washington to give to us what
is already ours the land of our fathers?" The white man who
receives any confidence from the Florida Indian must indeed
possess great magnetism for the Seminole is suspicious of
every overture and will mislead his questioner on all occasions.
And while the white man is studying "poor Lo" "pour Ln" is
similarly engaged in studying him and continually revolving in
his suspicious mind "what can the pale face want from the In-
dian any way?"
The chiefs have taught the young braves all about the out-
rages perpetrated upon their tribe by unscrupulous agents dur-
ing the wars; and while the Indians themselves in many ca-
ses practiced cruelty it was always in retaliation for some
grievous wrong of anterior date. History records case after
case of robberies and enormities committed on the Seminoles
previous to the war and during its progress. Miconopy re-
quested a lawyer to draw a form of writing for him which soon
after proved to be a conveyance of a valuable tract of land!!!
Afterwards the war -whoop and the deadly hand of Micanopy
was heard and felt among the swamps and prairies.
In the mutual relations between the whites and the In-
dians it requires no skilled advocate to show on which side
must lie the wrongs unrepaired and unavenged. Without
doubt the Indian has always been the victim. One thing is
certain the Indian chiefs when fairly dealt with have always
evinced an earnest desire to make just terms.
The Seminoles live to themselves shun all intimacy with
the Caucasian and their personal appearance is therefore al-
most unknown .to- Americans. The greater part of the tribe
seldom if ever leave their marshy homes. To reach their
camps uninhabitable wilds must be traversed and sometimes
miles of mud and water waded then perhaps only to find the
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The Indian Advocate. (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 1, 1900, newspaper, December 1, 1900; Sacred Heart, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc69782/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.