Http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/seminole is a website that covers the history of the Seminole people in a breif fashion, but without leaving anything out. This posting is about how the Seminole nation didn't just pop up on the map like most other American tribes; it was a process of many other groups of tribes moving into the Florida territory for many various reasons. Also it wasn't just Native Americans that became part of the Seminole tribe, runaway slaves that seeked out refuge from slave catchers joined their ranks as the years went on.
The Seminole nation is like America; it was a melting pot of various groups that all put up with their different reasons for going to Florida and lived together and eventually formed their own nation. The forefathers of the Seminole's came from the Lower Creek Confederation (LCC), which were most of the weaker tribes that were tired of being beat up on by their brothers the Upper Creeks. Then others traveled south in search of more fertile farmland which hadn't been tapped into like most of the south. A large number of runaway slaves went to Florida to escape the slave catchers who were persistently trying to get them to sell them for profit. The Seminole gladly gave them safe haven, and also became intimate with them. This later led to more controversy with the US government and thier war with the Seminole. The slave catcher's didn't give a hoot whether the Seminoles were native in appearance or black, the blacks were captured and sold. This is what happened to Chief Osceola's wife, who was black.
Morris, FirsAllent. "Creeks migrate to Florida." Seminole History. Florida Dept. of State, 2010. Web. 15 Apr 2010. http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/seminole/ .
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