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8 unusual facts about Seminole


Adam LaRoche

He played for his father, Dave, at Fort Scott Community College in 1999 before transferring to Seminole Community College in Seminole, Oklahoma in 2000, where he was an All-American and the MVP of the Junior College World Series.

Haplogroup R-M173

In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.

Jeff Ruminer

Jeffrey Ruminer (born December 16, 1962 from Seminole, Oklahoma USA) was a professional American "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from (1977–1985).

KGOU

It also operates translators K276ET (103.1 FM) in Seminole, K250AU (97.9 FM) in Ada and 106.9 in Chickasha.

Longwood, Florida

In 1965, the City served as a film site and backdrop, representing a fictional south Florida town adjacent to a Seminole Indian tribe reservation in the Universal Studios film, Johnny Tiger.

Patrick Tonyn

During his tenure as governor of East Florida the colony enjoyed peace with the neighboring Indians, primarily due to his positive relationship with Ahaya the Cowkeeper, chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe.

Vaccinium myrsinites

The Seminole used this plant for food and for a variety of ceremonial and medicinal purposes, including the treatment of "hog sickness", or unconsciousness.

Zamia integrifolia

Coontie (or koonti) is derived from the Seminole Native American language conti hateka.


2004 Orange Bowl

Seminole kicker Xavier Beitia would line up to attempt a 39-yard field goal to give the Seminoles the lead.

Bill Peterson

Peterson became the first Seminole coach to beat the University of Florida, a 16–7 win at Doak Campbell Stadium.

Billy Bowlegs

The surname "Bowlegs" may be an alternate spelling of Bolek, a preceding Seminole chief.

Black Seminole Scouts

Many of the scouts' remains rest at the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery in Kinney County, Texas, including Adam and Isaac Payne and members of their family.

Brackettville, Texas

Demographically, Brackettville had a larger proportion of Black Seminoles (people of mixed African American and Seminole ancestry, who originated in Florida) than the rest of West Texas, as they had been recruited by the US to act as scouts for the Buffalo Soldiers and settled with their families in the town.

Delwin Jones

His District 83 also includes the outlying communities of Levelland, Denver City, Plains, Shallowater, Slaton, and Seminole, Texas.

Deseret Ranches

In 2010, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (Orange and Seminole Counties) ruled that Deseret owned and had control over the Taylor Creek Reservoir over the St. Johns River Water Management District.

Eugene Savage

In 1935 and 1953 Savage visited Florida, where he painted the experience of the Seminole Indians in their Everglades habitat especially taking note of the intrusion of modern civilization into what seemed to be a Garden of Eden pastoral existence.

Florida State–Miami football rivalry

Miami took a 27-24 lead after a Ken Dorsey touchdown pass to Jeremy Shockey, but Seminole quarterback and 2000 Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke moved the Seminoles into field goal range during a last minute drive in Miami's Orange Bowl stadium.

Fort Brooke

In 1823, Colonels George Mercer Brooke and James Gadsden of the United States Army were ordered to establish a military presence on Tampa Bay in the newly acquired Florida territory to contain the Seminole Indians and curtail illegal activities along the gulf coast.

Gene Cox

He received his bachelor's degree from Florida State University in 1956 after having played on the 1954 and 1955 Florida State Seminole football teams.

Gene Deckerhoff

The show regularly featured a segment with Burt Reynolds, an FSU alum who played for the Seminole football team in the 1950s.

Halleck Tustenuggee

Halleck, with a band of seventy warriors, was finally defeated by Federal troops on April 19, 1842, near the settlement of Peliklakaha Hammock (in today's Lake County, Florida), the last battle of the Second Seminole War in Florida.

Halleck Tustenuggee (also spelled Halek Tustenuggee and Hallock Tustenuggee) (about 1807?) was a 19th-century Seminole warchief.

Hotel del Coronado

Since then, it has been featured in at least twelve other films, including: Some Like It Hot (which starred Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis where it was called the "Seminole Ritz"), The Stunt Man (which starred Peter O'Toole), Wicked, Wicked (which was completely filmed on location there), and the 1990 version of My Blue Heaven (which starred Steve Martin and Rick Moranis).

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (born 1954) is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer, curator, and educator living in Davis, California.

Jesse Witten

Upon graduating from Lely High School, Witten was given a wildcard to the USTA Pro Circuit event in Seminole, Florida where he reached the semifinal.

John Yeackle

In 1950, Yeackle's family moved to Sanford, Florida, where they developed Seminole Fish Camp, on the Wekiva River.

Joseph Lovell

During Lovell's term of office occurred the Black Hawk War and the beginning of the long continued struggle with the Seminoles of Florida.

Lost Nigger Gold Mine

According to the legend, in 1887 four brothers in Dryden, Texas—Frank, Jim, John, and Lee Reagan—hired an illiterate Seminole man named William Kelly to help with work on their ranch.

Metroplan Orlando

Metroplan Orlando is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Orlando, Florida Urban Area, which consists of Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties.

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

The institution was moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma (near the capital of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation as well as the Seminole Nation) as the Catholic University of Oklahoma in 1910, and in 1922, the name was changed to St. Gregory's College.

Peter Tom Willis

He surpassed Seminole great, and fellow Hall of Famer, Gary Huff to become Florida State's top single season passer with 3,124 yards.

Porky's II: The Next Day

The local Ku Klux Klan chapter joins the movement to shut down the Shakespeare festival because its members object to an American Indian (Runningfox's Seminole character) playing Romeo opposite a white girl Juliet (Wendy).

Richard C. Gatlin

He then served in Missouri and Louisiana, took part in the Seminole Wars of 1849-50, and served on frontier duty in Kansas, Native American Territory, Arkansas and Dakota until he marched with Albert Sidney Johnston to Utah to take part in the Utah War.

Seminole Casino Immokalee

Originally opened in February 1994, and recently expanded the property in February 2009; the Seminole Casino offers Vegas Style Slot machines, Poker and a variety of table games including Baccarat, Blackjack, and three card poker.

Seminole County School District

Seminole County High School was once the playing ground for a Washington Redskins player named Phillip Daniels.

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood

In a deal valued at $1.1 billion, former Governor Charlie Crist gave the Seminole Tribe a license for blackjack in its casinos.

Seminole Heights

Rose Ferlita, a neighborhood drug store owner, and former president of Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association was a two-term Tampa City Council member from 1999 to 2006 until she was elected to the Hillsborough County Commission. April Griffin, Seminole Heights resident, was elected to the Hillsborough County School Board in 2006.

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Following the Seminole Agreement of 1909, the Seminole lands were allotted to individual households registered on the Dawes Rolls, in a federal plan to encourage subsistence farming and assimilation.

Its members are descendants of the 3,000 Seminole who were forcibly removed from Florida to Indian Territory, along with 800 Black Seminoles, after the Second Seminole War.

essentially those with documented descent from ancestors listed as Seminole-Indian on the Dawes Rolls.

Seminole State College of Florida

The most notable alumni of Seminole State College of Florida are Mikael Pernfors the former professional tennis player, John Hart the former general manager of the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers, Rob Ducey the former Major League Baseball player and olympian, and Doug Marlette the pulitzer prize winning cartoonist.

Seminole Tribe of Florida

Jim Billie, Chairman of Seminole Tribe from 1979-2001, during expansion of Indian gaming and increase in tribal wealth and economic development; re-elected in 2011

Uchee Billy

Hernandez was led to the site by a Seminole brave, Tomoka John, who had been captured along with Seminole Chief King Phillip two nights earlier at Dunlawton Plantation.

WKES

Licensed to Lakeland, Florida, USA, it serves the Tampa Bay area from its studios at Keswick Christian School in Seminole.

Ya-ha Hadjo

Ya-ha Hadjo (Mad Wolf Georgia ? - March 29, 1836 Florida) was a member of the Creek Nation who avoided forced relocation to Indian Territory with his band by moving south to the Florida Territory where he joined with the Seminole and retained his position as chief.


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