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3 unusual facts about Seminole Nation of Oklahoma


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.



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