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STURM’S
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JUNE-JULY, 1907.
No. 4 and 5
THE LAST CHIEF OF THE SEMINOLES.
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By J. ~W. KEIFF.
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war-disturbed district, and furnished a
basis of negotiations for all future,
treaties, compacts and agreements look-
ing to the final dissolution of tribal re-
lations and the replacement of tribal gov-
ernment by federal authority. These
were preliminary steps in the great trans-
formation. destined to take place within
the next forty years, during which time
the Indians were to be made ready for
the higher duties of an advancing civili-
zation and prepared for amalgamation
with their Causcasian neighbors, which
now outnumber them, three to one within
the borders of the Seminole Nation.
Governor Brown, as he is familiarly
known, is not an Indian in the sense that
tradition pictures him. He is not a
dreamer nor a romantic visionaire, but a
person of well defined, intelligent and
fixed purposes, a man of practical affairs,
who, when measured by the tests of mod-
ern standards, suffers nothing by. com-
parison with the ablest white man of his
day, while he towers like a giant oak
above the common run of his own people.
He is not of those who regard the lurid
lightning as a manifestation of the
“Great Spirit’s” displeasure, or the rum-
blings of the thunder as the voice of an
enraged Deity. He sees the turbid
waters of the rivers as they roll away
to the seas, but they awaken no vision
of romance or tradition in his breast,
other than the practical question as how
to provide against their overflow and
consequent devastation of the inundated
districts, or how best to convert their in-
herent potentiality into a practical utility.
*|XTY-FOUR years ago, at Tah-
\ kqnah, Cherokee Nation, Indian
Territory, John F. Brown, the
and last Chief of the Seminoles,
burn. His father, Dr. John F.
Hows. *as a federal army surgeon of
: i descent, who was sent from Flor-
, v s.’i the Seminoles, as their physician,
t.’teir removal to the Indian Terri-
...... and his mother was a full blood
wnmt !e. There being a provision in
, iinolc code preventing their inter-
u’.i^e with the whites, Doctor Brown
n I. , prospective bride from among the
■niuti Jrs to the Cherokee Natioh, where
»niuricd her, reared a family and lived
. ■ffluindcr of his life. The boy, John,
t i young manhood in the pictur-
. ur anil delightful portion of the In-
ui Territory amid luxurious environ-
ii • and received the rudiments of his
nr ( education in that ancient seat of
lore and advancing Indian en-
j|i<"ncnt. With the disturbed condi-
; receding the Civil War, he drifted
• iill uard, and located in the Seminole
Ulen, near the present town of Sas-
where he has ever since resided,
the war broke out he joined for-
< with the Southern Confederacy, as
I'.trnant, as did about half of the
i •i-iuM^e tribe of Indians.
war over, he was selected by his
to represent them in the famous
<nii'nce of 1866, when a treaty was
’rtwecn the United States Govern-
■" nd the Seminoles, which re-estab-
• J peace and friendly relations in the
■ A X 7,
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