I'm 58 years old and I was born in Helena Arkansas and when I was 6 my grandfather told me that his father told him that his uncle escaped slavery and ran to a Indian tribe.
Im in Alabama and I remember hearing people talk about slaves escaping from the plantations and living in small groups in the wilderness creating small towns completely "off the grid" and unknown to most people including the state government.
My story is similar to yours. So I was born and raised in Michigan. My maternal grandparents are from SC. But my maternal grandfather's fathers family is from California. His side if the family was Native. My 3rd great grandmother was a Shasta woman who married a runaway slave, who killed his slave owner and ran off to Cali. They got married, as far as I know, they had 3 kids, a daughter and two sons. Their daughter is my 2nd great grandmother. She married a Black man from Oklahoma. Sorry this story is so long!
Thank you so much for this video. I am a Black Seminole who lives in Brackettville, Texas. I am a member of a group called the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. We maintain a cemetery called the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery, where four Black Seminole Medal of Honor recipients are buried.
From 1850 to 1870, the Black Seminoles worked as scouts for the Mexican government. They did this bin exchange for land. El Nacimiento is the town in Northern Mexico where the Black Seminoles (known as Negros Mascogos in Mexico) live. From 1870 to 1915, the Black Seminoles worked as scouts for the US military. During their service, these Black Seminoles, now known as Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, fought bravely and never lost a man in battle. But they were disbanded in 1914 and kicked off the fort they considered home. Mexico was the only country/government that kept their promise of land to the Black Seminoles.
@@dancanada3335 Of course. No ones pretending like other races didn't practice slavery. Its just that these systems of control were far smaller and had far less of an effect on history that European or Arab slave trades.
@@dancanada3335 Have you read the description in that video? That person is promoting underwear that "protects" against electro-magnetic radiation. Also, she believes that removing Wi-Fi and Wireless devices from your home is good for "optimum health." To solve this, she recommends buying adapters from CHINA, and says that they will frequently break, but it's okay, because they will replace them if you bought the $3 Protection Plan! There is so much wrong with that, I don't know where to begin... So please, tell me, why would you trust someone - that has no background as a Physician - to sell you things that will supposedly help you to live a healthier life? If you don't trust her with that, good! Then I would ask, why would you lend her any more credibility - especially on a diverse and varied topic such as American History? And that's not even referencing the subject matter of the video... I hope you find the time to look-up everything I've mentioned here - do it for yourself!
@@dancanada3335 of course you can’t blame slavery on those issues. You did not experience the transatlantic slave trade.There never has been and hopefully never will be anything as expansive, degrading , dehumanizing and damaging as the American chattel slavery system. A system that many Europeans and American STILL benefit from.
@@dancanada3335 Black people took slaves, natives killed natives for the white supremacist. It doesn’t change or take away from our beautiful history of coalition and the fight against the white supremacist. But we all know you knew that.
It's crazy how the downfall of the natives was mostly due to the fact that they were peaceful and took the settlers at their word. This piece of history needs to be made into a series or movie.
Natives had confederate allies with some tribes..they fought over resources like everyone else ...the government ideals were advanced . However the nations of tribes were fractured, there was no written language, and there was no invention like the wheel So given to fact there was more people from europe . These are many factors why today is like it is
@@sjsouljah7368 no...they actually were some that hated the others so bad they got them on an island and they starved, starved rock. The western planes have always been a place of conflict for tribes against each other also.
I live in Florida and even went to St. Augustine several years ago, and I had never heard anything about Black Seminoles. This just goes to show you, you learn something new everyday.
Or how european and original settlers influenced southern cuisine since that is the main factor lol fried chicken and other foods sure didnt come from africa lol
@Adam Osak @Hunter Mcelroy when you’re given scraps, you learn to improvise. You seriously don’t believe enslaved people could come up with frying chicken? Why not? There are a variety of fried foods all around Africa. Did settlers somehow teach all of them too? Y’all can’t give black people credit for sh*t, my god 🤦🏾♂️. Such a superiority complex. There’s been this incessant need throughout history to demean us and put us in our place. You don’t want us to be proud of anything we create, and if it is something to be proud of, you diminish those achievements or say we couldn’t have invented it. My only question is why? Does it makes you feel better about yourself?
Proud Gullah/Geechee From Florida. Many of the escaped slaves came from my peoples into Florida to from south Carolina and Georgia plantations to become afro Seminoles. We allied side by side with the Natives using guerilla warfare tactics based off of both African and native American strategies. From our knowledge of poisons and fear tactics to our unique language that we at the time could only understand, we are the underrated foes against our ancestors and created one other very few successful slave uprisings in the United states history! Gullah: "Wen di bukrah dem try fo mek wi chattel, wi nyew dat no man or ooman kyan be wi massa! Hunnuh be di wan dat e massah ob hunnuh.Tenki Seminole dem fa hunnuh kindness an teech'ns wan mi ancesta dem most needed em dur'n de maffah times!" English: When the white man tried to keep us enslaved, we knew that no man nor woman could be our Masters. Only you can be masters of one's self. Thank you to all Native Seminoles for all the help given when my ancestors most needed it during the slavery era!
in brasil there's the concept of "quilombola" which means "inhabitant of the quilombo." Quilombo is a fortified community of former slaves who fled their portuguese captors. i've worked on a documentary on the quilombola arts, which are basically amerindian art, pottery and such, and there were many accounts of cooperation between indigenous and black peoples in the heartlands. this video's story made me very happy!
It's honestly saddening that I've learned more about history from the Internet than I ever did in school. Goes to show how far people will go to rewrite history.
When black people say that 'we have Indian in our family,' that's probably true. My great grandmother was half black half Choctaw. Her hair was long and white.
Shows how much of our history we miss in the Bahamas. They were too busy teaching us about the contract and the loyalist to teach us about the Black Seminoles coming here.
I’m so glad you talked about Native tribes owning slaves as well. That’s a fact not mentioned often. I didn’t know about the Seminoles to this extent! Thank you!
It was not a tradition. It was part of trying to assimilate to white society. Eventually they stopped after the trail of tears. My nation never did this practice.
@@JudithMartin2014 Never owned black slaves, perhaps. Slavery was practiced to some extent by all neolithic tribal cultures, Siberian-American tribes included, and was an ancient tradition among tribes the Americas over by the time of European arrival.
@@Deatheater4444 No it was not.Indians owning slaves continued. When the five civilized settled in the newly established indian territory (Oklahoma)some of the tribes members had slaves. Slavery existed in indian territory. Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks sided with the Confederacy. Cherokees were split. Stan Watie and others within the Cherokee tribe sided with the Confederacy. The revisionist history, false history by others groups ,cannot cover historical FACTS.
Seminoles: "We never thought we'd die fighting side by side with escaped and former slaves." Runaway Slaves; Black Seminoles: "What about side by side with a friends?" Seminoles: "Aye, we could do that."
Thank you so much for making this video, Weird History. Thank you for a balanced, culturally-sensitive look at history, as it should be. Thank you for including Indigenous voices, knowledge and worldview.
No they are throwing Black people useless symbolic gestures instead of tangibles. America both it's white population and government have ZERO remorse about their past and present treatment of Black people so let's not even pretend they do.
Could you do a show about the oldest living American ,whose name was Charlie Smith. I read about this guy in people magazine in the late 1970's. He was 134. Me and my buddies were going to Florida and our route took us near the Bartow Convelesant Center so we dropped by to talk with him.He had been a slave. PBS DID TWO MOVIES ABOUT HIM.
@@gamblerssensei7607 i know, they aren't very good especially with fringe topics like this they will definitely suppress information so i am open to other facts if there's more to support his old age.
@Drifty Archer Legally verified oldest person, I know Smith had no birth certificate, he was born in Liberia, then tricked onto a slave ship when he was twelve, then sold in Texas. He should be the subject of a 'Weird History' anyway because of his interesting life story. I'm 60 years-old, and when I was 17 or 18 I met a former slave. That still kind of blows my mind. If you had spoken with him you would have known he was telling the truth!
@@cade1177 Sir, Mansa Musa one of the richest men of his time built his fortune with slavery as part of his portfolio..South Carolina had Black slave owners/sellers breeders...im quite aware of Black Wall Street.. Black inventions etc..and the massacres that took place...my heart goes out to the people of those times...but at the same time the blame the white man for all of of Black suffrage is not acknowledging Africa's willingness to engage in the slave trade..both Arab and Transatlantic..
Africans in Latin America. Explain How so many Latinos are from African decent. Also explain how Afro Americans and Afro Latinos are the same people dropped off in different places. That would be a great video.
This is the missing link that i was looking for👌 there are too many black people from the greater en lesser antilles, that are from indian descent. While history doesnt really tell you anything about the mixing that occured during the slavery.. its because of my grandparents that i got this info, pics etc and this also backs it up to some extend😅
It is a bit complex. Not only were there the original Tainos whose bloodlines survived somewhat (apparently, some of most of the tribes of the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba & Jamaica fled to Puerto Rico. You know something is up when a tiny island boasts 20-some tribes & Hispaniola was divided among six), but pirates were kidnapping natives under the rug & selling them in the Caribbean. Often, when whites went to war with tribes, a lot of Natives were taken captive & sold. Plus, around 1700, the larger tribes began doing that to smaller tribes as a means of participating in the economy with white settlers, because the fur trade went so poorly for tribes in the north & they couldn't imagine what else they had that whites would even want from them.
@Keith Lopez I know. What I mean is that there seems like there are too many Taino tribes associated with Puerto Rico, so I'm assuming most of them came from elsewhere. An island that size, I would be expecting 2 tribes, tops.
@@MrChristianDT have you ever been to puerto rico ? Just cus its small on the map does not mean its 30 miles long ....... we have 1 of the biggest rainforest .. the tribes werent that big a few 100 people at most not the island alone is like almost 4million in population .. trust me we have enough space still for a million more ..
Also when it came down to reparations the Seminole Indian Nation and the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes expelled their Black members to keep them from getting any of the money.
Lmaooo this is false. A lot of their tribal members are from slave descents. There’s a lot of mixed members. This ic coming from a guy who goes to native college conferences.
@@samuelsumpter7259 and there's a video on UA-cam called the Double Struggle for Black Native Americans that UA-cam for some odd reason doesn't want you to link to, but we know that UA-cam is basically a organization is very sympathetic to the racist right-wing that's why they're being sued which is a good thing.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I was a Black History teacher and I never heard of the details and depth of the Black and Seminole relationship. Thanks for opening my eyes! History books need to be rewritten. This truth needs be related to all of the USA.
Another lesser known event with racial implications: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. In 1904, Catholic families in Arizona (primarily of Mexican descent) accepted orphans from NYC who were predominately of Irish background. When the white Protestant settlers got wind of their arrival, they staged kidnappings and raids to "save the children". Did an undergrad paper on it, story's stuck with me for a long time.
Loving the content! I would love to see the battle for Little Bighorn. I have ancestors who immigrated from America to Canada to escape the "Indian wars" I would love to get a brief history of what that was. Keep it up!
I wish this channel would do more episodes about black history/ indigenous history in months other than February. Less white oppressors, more stories of the oppressed.
Yes, please! As well as Henrietta Lacks and the use of her cells to further medical research without her consent. Great in understanding the cultural mistrust that Black people still have towards the medical community.
i live in oklahoma the town i live in is right next to a town called Seminole, Oklahoma my family is Cherokee and Choctaw and Seminole so nice to see this being taught they don't teach this stuff in schools🙂
@Pulido Duarte i feel like a lot of Latinos do that, and I don’t think I ever really did but now I just call natives “ Los nativos” or “ Los indígenas” because thats the right thing to call them
One of our distant grandfathers escaped the trail of tears with 7 other warriors and made their way to Florida and assimilated into the Seminole tribes.
I actually live in St. Augustine and give a history tour of the state, starting with the Timucua and Seminole tribes, and actually do cover the history of Ft. Mose which is but a few miles north of me. Ft. Mose is also home to the first black owned businesses in America, but some of those who earned their freedom through fighting for the Spanish crown to live in Ft. Mose moved to Cuba when Florida became British to live in The Spanish territories captured which led to prominent black communities in Cuba as well.
I was born there and my mom's side of the family is from there also. However I was raised up north but would love to get more family history so planning on a trip. I would love to take one of your tours.
I can across this many years ago when I read a book called Black Indians by William Loren Katz. I was amazed and never heard of them. Good to see a video being done.
I am Creole, Choctaw and Irish I have cousins the color of a wet Hershey bar, while I have red hair, green eyes and light skin we come in all shades, and this video explains it well
Awesome... I am German, Indian and Plains Cree and I've got brown hair/brown eyes/dark skin lol. You really can't tell people's ancestry just by looking :)
In high school, I was dared to play "gay chicken", which is where two straight guys pretend to be gay, and the first one to chicken out loses. The other guy and I are both really stubborn, and neither one of us wanted to lose. We've been married 14 years and we run a bed and breakfast in Vermont with our adopted daughter. If that dude doesn't chicken out soon, I'm going to start to suspect that he's actually gay
The choice of words the narrator used are important. Especially when he says "slave owners DOWNPLAYED the rebellion of the Seminoles so that other slaves would not rebel." Many of these things are occuring in our nation today. Slavery is a thing of the past, as is written, and noone shall stay in "the wilderness" and everyone shall prosper.
Yeah since the institution of slavery was threaten The South was of course behind this war 100% the Midwest at that time known as the West thought Native Americans everywhere should be taught a lesson. In the Mid-Atlantic States they felt that the Dade Massacre as they called it, even though he walked right into an ambush. Should be Avenged. It was only the New England states that objected to this war in Florida. With all that being said the Seminole Wars was the only Native American War fought in the United States not so much to take the land from Native American but to protect the institution of slavery. Because they knew as long as there was a safe haven for slaves to run to in Florida their whole system their peculiar institution was in jeopardy.
If you mean the only "native american war fought in the US" AGAINST natives for that purpose, maybe. But if you mean "native american wars" in the sense of the word (meaning: including native americans) several tribes, such as the Chickasaw, Creek and Choctaw were practising slavery themselves and fought actively alongside the confederacy against the union to protect the institution of slavery.
@@svene.3856 yes I'm very aware of that also during the Civil War they fought for the Confederacy and that was an Indian Nation present-day Oklahoma. As a matter of fact the very last Confederate general to surrender to the United States was a Cherokee Indian. And the Seminoles also practice slavery as a matter of fact those tribes in the American southeast was called the Five Civilized Tribes because they most imitated white European behavior.
@@svene.3856 they were definitely listed as slave owners now I know when it comes down to Native Americans and slave ownership people have a tendency to try to gloss over it but slavery is slavery. And like you said many of them went off to fight in the Confederate Army so they were obviously willing to fight,kill and be killed to protect that peculiar Institution.
i think agent provocateurs have always been pretty good at dividing people into opposing factions. skin tone is the most obvious "difference" to be exploited.
Unfortunately, many people filled with hatred and denial try to deny the ugly truth of white supremacy; which, in itself, brings a tremendous amount of division amongst all citizens. I say truth hurts the Low in character.
Id love to see a video about US foreign land annexations for military bases; Cuba, Okinawa, Guam, Italy, Germany, Chagos Island (Diego Garcia), Fort Bondstone* Serbia/Kosovo.. etc
Seminole is the result from several creek nations mixing in florida. They were already considered seminoles when they started coming across blacks and sure some small percentage of blacks mixed but that is not what makes the seminole nation
@@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 and you said barely which means the dna is still there 😂you don’t have to be 50 50 to have the dna nore know who your ancestors were 😂lol have ah nice day and educate yourself while your at it 😁
It is such a tiny small percentage of ppl who mixed with seminol and mostly were white lol that is all of human history anyways isnt it? Ppl move around and mix that is all human nature. Why would something as small as this topic be a focal point? especially when u have no evidence of erased history considering we just looked at it lol
@@huntermcelroy6792 You seem to be a bit jealous. You've replied to more people comments than anyone else as if you created this video. What a miserable life that must be.
I would love to know more about the lumbee tribe myself especially since my grandmother’s results came back 50% lumbee when she did her ancestry testing
The Choctaw made their mark in my home state of Louisiana also. The name Tangipahoa and Amite are derived from the Choctaw people. We didn't learn a lot about Native Americans when I was in Grade school
I'd like to hear about the Australian aborigines. In Europe they have 10 to 20 thousand year old cave paintings revered and protected. However, the way older cave painting by aborigines are unprotected and hardly know about. Recently a mining company blew up a site that is 46 thousand years old!
Miigwetch for history lesson! I love hearing about other First Nation/Native Americans. Coz I am Algonquin. Ohh especially a beautiful town in Florida before they were pushed away.
Glad more people will know about this. We called them black Seminole and Never forget our brother at arms. Sad we lost I think all of them and most of our tribe but we still here in Florida Jackson that moron could never get rid of us. SHONABESH (thank you) weird history
Great video but there are a few more gems in the story, Seminoles are not the 'only' native Indian group in Florida -- the actual Florida natives like Timucuas or Apalachees were displaced by the spanish. The tribe native to my area are pretty much "ghosts" no record or mention of them around here, esp not by name-- but they rebelled, and were shipped off to Cuba in like 1705. Angola was a free-black nation state that was on the gulf coast near Tampa. These folks, were escaped aristocrats from Congo -- and were already Christian. The King of Kongo converted in about 1490. Congo had been roman catholic for about 100 years. Just as a consideration, Spanish colonial Florida was organized on a mission system tied to the roman catholic church. The people who inhabited Angola could have fit into the mission-system 'neatly' -- as it was already familiar to them from Congo, or at a minimum tried to exchange messages with the Church in Congo. When the United States destroyed Angola, some of them escaped to the bahamas where they are know as "Seminoles". Any serious consideration of Angola upends many of our traditional preconceptions about that entire era. Remarkably there was another Angola in Brazil, also established by captured aristocrats from Congo.
You do know that The Congo and Angola are two separate African kingdoms. So more than likely at least some of those people were from Angola. They also had contact with the Portuguese and mane were Catholic as well.
Need more Native American history! Like how the US constitution is based off native tribal government, and how natives helped win the revolutionary war. So much shi
I’d like to hear about Evertt Ruess, he was talked about in the book, Into The Wild. He was like Chris on into the wild, he went on huge adventures, except he disappeared somewhere in Utah and to this day we still know nothing about how he died or if he even did.
From the the way it looks in some of the places I go to chat;, non of us white people do. We are all just slave owners and thieves and have stolen everything we know and have from our opposites. I don't know what to say when I'm confronted with that kind of thinking.
@@MithrilMaia well that's the way people with out race problems would see it. Because he is white he is seen as that. But you are right for sure. I wonder if he was good at something else?
@@pattycake8272 No one is an unjust villain in their own mind, we're all a hero to our own story. That is something I deal with! I said previously in a post aforementioned above. There is grace, dignity, and humanity to admit you're wrong and redress it. Remember the words of George Pompeo, "We lie, We cheat, We steal." I will never forget his words.
There was no such thing as a "Native Seminole tribes". The etymology of the word Seminole originates from the Taino word for runaways. The Spanish adapted the use of the word as cimarrón to describe untamed, wild, runaways. The Creek adapted the word from the Spanish and pronounced it as simanó-li. The British/English hired Creek peoples to catch runaway slaves who escaped to Spanish Florida. There were no tribes there called "Seminole". That is something later termed by British colonizers to group Indigenous peoples of Florida together with. The African descent ones they call Black Seminole. When the African runaways were making their way to Spanish Florida the Indigenous Peoples were very low in number. Not to mention, the Spanish and Black Africans who traveled with the Spanish, would have mated with the local Indigenous peoples, i.e., Mestizos, Afro-Indigenous, and Pardo.
My great grandfather was a wind talker in WW II. Could you do a piece on them? that would be awesome to hear about their trials and tribulations as well.
Wow! I did not know there were two different tribes of Seminoles. I learn something new every time I watch a new episode. I guess that shows how good our educational system is.
There was no such thing as a "Native Seminole tribes". The etymology of the word Seminole originates from the Taino word for runaways. The Spanish adapted the use of the word as cimarrón to describe untamed, wild, runaways. The Creek adapted the word from the Spanish and pronounced it as simanó-li. The British/English hired Creek peoples to catch runaway slaves who escaped to Spanish Florida. There were no tribes there called "Seminole". That is something later termed by British colonizers to group Indigenous peoples of Florida together with. The African descent ones they call Black Seminole. When the African runaways were making their way to Spanish Florida the Indigenous Peoples were very low in number. Not to mention, the Spanish and Black Africans who traveled with the Spanish, would have mated with the local Indigenous peoples, i.e., Mestizos, Afro-Indigenous, and Pardo.
WHERE IS THE 1990s TIMELINE VIDEO??? Am I going crazy? I could have swore you said the 1990s video series would be coming out in the beginning of 2021...It's just about the middle of February. Where? Where, I say!
I'm 58 years old and I was born in Helena Arkansas and when I was 6 my grandfather told me that his father told him that his uncle escaped slavery and ran to a Indian tribe.
Tell more?
Whoa!!!
Im in Alabama and I remember hearing people talk about slaves escaping from the plantations and living in small groups in the wilderness creating small towns completely "off the grid" and unknown to most people including the state government.
@@rbeck3200tb40 Aniston Alabama is where Geronimo used to hide out
My story is similar to yours. So I was born and raised in Michigan. My maternal grandparents are from SC. But my maternal grandfather's fathers family is from California. His side if the family was Native. My 3rd great grandmother was a Shasta woman who married a runaway slave, who killed his slave owner and ran off to Cali. They got married, as far as I know, they had 3 kids, a daughter and two sons. Their daughter is my 2nd great grandmother. She married a Black man from Oklahoma. Sorry this story is so long!
Thank you so much for this video. I am a Black Seminole who lives in Brackettville, Texas. I am a member of a group called the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. We maintain a cemetery called the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery, where four Black Seminole Medal of Honor recipients are buried.
From 1850 to 1870, the Black Seminoles worked as scouts for the Mexican government. They did this bin exchange for land. El Nacimiento is the town in Northern Mexico where the Black Seminoles (known as Negros Mascogos in Mexico) live.
From 1870 to 1915, the Black Seminoles worked as scouts for the US military. During their service, these Black Seminoles, now known as Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, fought bravely and never lost a man in battle. But they were disbanded in 1914 and kicked off the fort they considered home. Mexico was the only country/government that kept their promise of land to the Black Seminoles.
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Yes they family told the truth of our tribes history ❤
I’m grateful that your are covering this topic. There are not enough stories about the Native/Black coalitions.
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Of course. No ones pretending like other races didn't practice slavery.
Its just that these systems of control were far smaller and had far less of an effect on history that European or Arab slave trades.
@@dancanada3335 Have you read the description in that video?
That person is promoting underwear that "protects" against electro-magnetic radiation.
Also, she believes that removing Wi-Fi and Wireless devices from your home is good for "optimum health." To solve this, she recommends buying adapters from CHINA, and says that they will frequently break, but it's okay, because they will replace them if you bought the $3 Protection Plan!
There is so much wrong with that, I don't know where to begin...
So please, tell me, why would you trust someone - that has no background as a Physician - to sell you things that will supposedly help you to live a healthier life?
If you don't trust her with that, good! Then I would ask, why would you lend her any more credibility - especially on a diverse and varied topic such as American History?
And that's not even referencing the subject matter of the video...
I hope you find the time to look-up everything I've mentioned here - do it for yourself!
@@dancanada3335 of course you can’t blame slavery on those issues. You did not experience the transatlantic slave trade.There never has been and hopefully never will be anything as expansive, degrading , dehumanizing and damaging as the American chattel slavery system. A system that many Europeans and American STILL benefit from.
@@dancanada3335 there always has to be that one guy
@@dancanada3335 Black people took slaves, natives killed natives for the white supremacist. It doesn’t change or take away from our beautiful history of coalition and the fight against the white supremacist. But we all know you knew that.
It's crazy how the downfall of the natives was mostly due to the fact that they were peaceful and took the settlers at their word. This piece of history needs to be made into a series or movie.
Mostly due to how the tribes were pitted against each other, continued to fight each other & didn't come together to block White westward expansion.
@@sjsouljah7368 not entirely
Natives had confederate allies with some tribes..they fought over resources like everyone else ...the government ideals were advanced . However the nations of tribes were fractured, there was no written language, and there was no invention like the wheel
So given to fact there was more people from europe . These are many factors why today is like it is
@@sjsouljah7368 no...they actually were some that hated the others so bad they got them on an island and they starved, starved rock. The western planes have always been a place of conflict for tribes against each other also.
I live in Florida and even went to St. Augustine several years ago, and I had never heard anything about Black Seminoles.
This just goes to show you, you learn something new everyday.
Suggestion: How enslaved people's cuisine influenced Southern cuisine during the slave era through today.
hell yesh!
Fried biege slop?
Or how european and original settlers influenced southern cuisine since that is the main factor lol fried chicken and other foods sure didnt come from africa lol
@Adam Osak @Hunter Mcelroy when you’re given scraps, you learn to improvise. You seriously don’t believe enslaved people could come up with frying chicken? Why not? There are a variety of fried foods all around Africa. Did settlers somehow teach all of them too? Y’all can’t give black people credit for sh*t, my god 🤦🏾♂️. Such a superiority complex. There’s been this incessant need throughout history to demean us and put us in our place. You don’t want us to be proud of anything we create, and if it is something to be proud of, you diminish those achievements or say we couldn’t have invented it. My only question is why? Does it makes you feel better about yourself?
@@ACloutToken One word.....insecure. Their fragile egos drive their need to subject and belittle others. Just like your average schoolyard bully.
Proud Gullah/Geechee From Florida. Many of the escaped slaves came from my peoples into Florida to from south Carolina and Georgia plantations to become afro Seminoles. We allied side by side with the Natives using guerilla warfare tactics based off of both African and native American strategies. From our knowledge of poisons and fear tactics to our unique language that we at the time could only understand, we are the underrated foes against our ancestors and created one other very few successful slave uprisings in the United states history!
Gullah: "Wen di bukrah dem try fo mek wi chattel, wi nyew dat no man or ooman kyan be wi massa! Hunnuh be di wan dat e massah ob hunnuh.Tenki Seminole dem fa hunnuh kindness an teech'ns wan mi ancesta dem most needed em dur'n de maffah times!"
English: When the white man tried to keep us enslaved, we knew that no man nor woman could be our Masters. Only you can be masters of one's self. Thank you to all Native Seminoles for all the help given when my ancestors most needed it during the slavery era!
in brasil there's the concept of "quilombola" which means "inhabitant of the quilombo." Quilombo is a fortified community of former slaves who fled their portuguese captors. i've worked on a documentary on the quilombola arts, which are basically amerindian art, pottery and such, and there were many accounts of cooperation between indigenous and black peoples in the heartlands. this video's story made me very happy!
That's dope!
Better crossover than the MCU universe
Complete agree.
Your adorable
What this video ignores is that native Americans took black people as slaves in the same way white people did
Lived in Florida for 18 years and never knew this. Great content!
Same lived here all my life and never knew. Love this channel.
It's honestly saddening that I've learned more about history from the Internet than I ever did in school. Goes to show how far people will go to rewrite history.
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É isso mesmo, se aprende mais sobre nossa própria história e cultura mais fora da escola do que dentro,aconteceu comigo tbm e com muitos!!!
As someone with Afro-Seminole ancestry I want to say thank you for making this video 🙏🏽
Ur definitely just Asian quit lyin
@@barrymccockinner842only half Asian, my mom was Japanese and my dad’s Black and Seminole
@@barrymccockinner842 Welp, this must be awkward for you.
@@JaelaOrdo my great grandpa enslaved your great grandpa
@@JaelaOrdo There’s clearly a troll... don’t feed the trolls!🙈
When black people say that 'we have Indian in our family,' that's probably true. My great grandmother was half black half Choctaw. Her hair was long and white.
Shows how much of our history we miss in the Bahamas. They were too busy teaching us about the contract and the loyalist to teach us about the Black Seminoles coming here.
I second this
They went to Red Bay in the Bahamas
I’m so glad you talked about Native tribes owning slaves as well. That’s a fact not mentioned often. I didn’t know about the Seminoles to this extent! Thank you!
It was not a tradition. It was part of trying to assimilate to white society. Eventually they stopped after the trail of tears. My nation never did this practice.
more of an eastern thing. I don't know any plains tribes that owned black slaves
@@JudithMartin2014 Never owned black slaves, perhaps. Slavery was practiced to some extent by all neolithic tribal cultures, Siberian-American tribes included, and was an ancient tradition among tribes the Americas over by the time of European arrival.
@@Deatheater4444 No it was not.Indians owning slaves continued. When the five civilized settled in the newly established indian territory (Oklahoma)some of the tribes members had slaves. Slavery existed in indian territory. Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks sided with the Confederacy. Cherokees were split. Stan Watie and others within the Cherokee tribe sided with the Confederacy. The revisionist history, false history by others groups ,cannot cover historical FACTS.
@@JudithMartin2014 Thank you for clarification. May I ask what nation you’re a part of?
Seminoles: "We never thought we'd die fighting side by side with escaped and former slaves."
Runaway Slaves; Black Seminoles: "What about side by side with a friends?"
Seminoles: "Aye, we could do that."
Awww
Nice one, cringe master
Perfect reference. 👌
I see what you did there. 😄
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Thank you so much for making this video, Weird History.
Thank you for a balanced, culturally-sensitive look at history, as it should be.
Thank you for including Indigenous voices, knowledge and worldview.
And now we know why they Don't want Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill anymore.
Andrew Jackson wouldn't want to be on a Bank note anyway.
No they are throwing Black people useless symbolic gestures instead of tangibles. America both it's white population and government have ZERO remorse about their past and present treatment of Black people so let's not even pretend they do.
Who is "they"? Average black person doesn't care. Does it still spend? Good enough.
@@mikepowell8611 This is true.
@@j.j.9511 Correct
They were mostly forgotten about, so...
Weird History is here to shed some light!!
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Could you do a show about the oldest living American ,whose name was Charlie Smith. I read about this guy in people magazine in the late 1970's. He was 134.
Me and my buddies were going to Florida and our route took us near the Bartow Convelesant Center so we dropped by to talk with him.He had been a slave. PBS DID TWO MOVIES ABOUT HIM.
wikipedia says research has shown he wasn't really that old, but who knows
Cool
@@SpeedOfThought1111 "Wikipedia"
@@gamblerssensei7607 i know, they aren't very good especially with fringe topics like this they will definitely suppress information so i am open to other facts if there's more to support his old age.
@Drifty Archer Legally verified oldest person, I know
Smith had no birth certificate, he was born in Liberia, then tricked onto a slave ship when he was twelve, then sold in Texas.
He should be the subject of a 'Weird History' anyway because of his interesting life story.
I'm 60 years-old, and when I was 17 or 18 I met a former slave. That still kind of blows my mind. If you had spoken with him you would have known he was telling the truth!
Can you please do more story’s on black millionaires in the segregation era
Nooooo...it will expose the there were also in the business of buying, breeding and selling slaves...
@@raulrodriguez5073 you do realize that black millionaires came after slavery was abolished in the United States
@@cade1177 Sir, Mansa Musa one of the richest men of his time built his fortune with slavery as part of his portfolio..South Carolina had Black slave owners/sellers breeders...im quite aware of Black Wall Street.. Black inventions etc..and the massacres that took place...my heart goes out to the people of those times...but at the same time the blame the white man for all of of Black suffrage is not acknowledging Africa's willingness to engage in the slave trade..both Arab and Transatlantic..
@@raulrodriguez5073 the time period im referring to is 1865 to 1964
There were no black slave owners in America in 1865-1964 legally and mansa musa outdates the Atlantic slave trade by centuries
Africans in Latin America. Explain How so many Latinos are from African decent. Also explain how Afro Americans and Afro Latinos are the same people dropped off in different places. That would be a great video.
This is the missing link that i was looking for👌 there are too many black people from the greater en lesser antilles, that are from indian descent. While history doesnt really tell you anything about the mixing that occured during the slavery.. its because of my grandparents that i got this info, pics etc and this also backs it up to some extend😅
There still tribes of native people in a Dominica, as you said not all died out and some were absorbed into the wider African population
I'm offended they are native Americans not indians. Your cancelled.
It is a bit complex. Not only were there the original Tainos whose bloodlines survived somewhat (apparently, some of most of the tribes of the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba & Jamaica fled to Puerto Rico. You know something is up when a tiny island boasts 20-some tribes & Hispaniola was divided among six), but pirates were kidnapping natives under the rug & selling them in the Caribbean. Often, when whites went to war with tribes, a lot of Natives were taken captive & sold. Plus, around 1700, the larger tribes began doing that to smaller tribes as a means of participating in the economy with white settlers, because the fur trade went so poorly for tribes in the north & they couldn't imagine what else they had that whites would even want from them.
@Keith Lopez I know. What I mean is that there seems like there are too many Taino tribes associated with Puerto Rico, so I'm assuming most of them came from elsewhere. An island that size, I would be expecting 2 tribes, tops.
@@MrChristianDT have you ever been to puerto rico ? Just cus its small on the map does not mean its 30 miles long ....... we have 1 of the biggest rainforest .. the tribes werent that big a few 100 people at most not the island alone is like almost 4million in population .. trust me we have enough space still for a million more ..
This is the thing about subscribing with this channel, it teaches you a lot like, A LOT
I love accurate information. WH does such a good job. Drunk History, albeit hilarious, is a great source too.
I was infatuated by this tidbit of history when I was in grade school. I would read up more on the Seminoles and Buffalo Soldiers.
*I love this channel*
You guys should do the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture! Plenty of weird circumstances, and a thrilling triumph!
Also when it came down to reparations the Seminole Indian Nation and the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes expelled their Black members to keep them from getting any of the money.
Lmaooo this is false. A lot of their tribal members are from slave descents. There’s a lot of mixed members. This ic coming from a guy who goes to native college conferences.
@@samuelsumpter7259 LOL it was very true whether you like it or not.
@@samuelsumpter7259 and there's a video on UA-cam called the Double Struggle for Black Native Americans that UA-cam for some odd reason doesn't want you to link to, but we know that UA-cam is basically a organization is very sympathetic to the racist right-wing that's why they're being sued which is a good thing.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@@samuelsumpter7259 they didn’t want to share with black seminoles
@@samuelsumpter7259 Keep playing dumb. It's all the $5 and the fakes have.
I’m a Florida history scholar and I LOVE that y’all covered this topic. Huge props.
I was a Black History teacher and I never heard of the details and depth of the Black and Seminole relationship. Thanks for opening my eyes! History books need to be rewritten. This truth needs be related to all of the USA.
So before now as a teacher you’d never looked into the subject yourself??
Another lesser known event with racial implications: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. In 1904, Catholic families in Arizona (primarily of Mexican descent) accepted orphans from NYC who were predominately of Irish background. When the white Protestant settlers got wind of their arrival, they staged kidnappings and raids to "save the children". Did an undergrad paper on it, story's stuck with me for a long time.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.
History were white cultures mix with others are not popular and no one cares about. Being white is not a good thing nowadays I guess lol
@@huntermcelroy6792 It almost seems like the tables have turned for american history
@@huntermcelroy6792 still fascinating for true history enthusiasts!
But why would they save the Irish Catholic children, I thought they despised them.
Loving the content! I would love to see the battle for Little Bighorn. I have ancestors who immigrated from America to Canada to escape the "Indian wars" I would love to get a brief history of what that was.
Keep it up!
Brilliant idea, I would also like to see a video on this
Well since you're talking about Florida, Weird History should talk about the Rosewood Massacre of 1923.
I wish this channel would do more episodes about black history/ indigenous history in months other than February. Less white oppressors, more stories of the oppressed.
Lets Go , keep up the great content my guy i appreciate you 💎
Video on Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment please...
yes
Yes, please! As well as Henrietta Lacks and the use of her cells to further medical research without her consent. Great in understanding the cultural mistrust that Black people still have towards the medical community.
That's the BEST WEIRD History posts I've ever watched. This is my daughter in laws heritage and my granddaughter's heritage.
I'd love to watch more Native American videos. Y'know, tribes, culture, hygiene, diets, you get the idea. 😃
Being an australian indigenous woman I thank u for doing this storey on our brothers and sisters from other lands
i live in oklahoma the town i live in is right next to a town called Seminole, Oklahoma my family is Cherokee and Choctaw and Seminole so nice to see this being taught they don't teach this stuff in schools🙂
How about you don’t call natives/indigenous people “Indian” because we’re not from India
@Pulido Duarte i feel like a lot of Latinos do that, and I don’t think I ever really did but now I just call natives “ Los nativos” or “ Los indígenas” because thats the right thing to call them
One of our distant grandfathers escaped the trail of tears with 7 other warriors and made their way to Florida and assimilated into the Seminole tribes.
Greetings from Ireland!
I actually live in St. Augustine and give a history tour of the state, starting with the Timucua and Seminole tribes, and actually do cover the history of Ft. Mose which is but a few miles north of me. Ft. Mose is also home to the first black owned businesses in America, but some of those who earned their freedom through fighting for the Spanish crown to live in Ft. Mose moved to Cuba when Florida became British to live in The Spanish territories captured which led to prominent black communities in Cuba as well.
I was born there and my mom's side of the family is from there also. However I was raised up north but would love to get more family history so planning on a trip. I would love to take one of your tours.
I can across this many years ago when I read a book called Black Indians by William Loren Katz. I was amazed and never heard of them. Good to see a video being done.
I am Creole, Choctaw and Irish
I have cousins the color of a wet Hershey bar, while I have red hair, green eyes and light skin
we come in all shades, and this video explains it well
Awesome... I am German, Indian and Plains Cree and I've got brown hair/brown eyes/dark skin lol. You really can't tell people's ancestry just by looking :)
In high school, I was dared to play "gay chicken", which is where two straight guys pretend to be gay, and the first one to chicken out loses. The other guy and I are both really stubborn, and neither one of us wanted to lose. We've been married 14 years and we run a bed and breakfast in Vermont with our adopted daughter. If that dude doesn't chicken out soon, I'm going to start to suspect that he's actually gay
Straight out a Key and Peele sketch lol
The future of the country is in good hands.
You had me till the end not gonna lie.
@@Laura-Yu and he was like........b I t c
@@Laura-Yu based on a Mad TV sketch actually. Not the exactly same way he decribed but the exact same premise.
Can you made video about History of Underpants, Just Curious.....
Lindsay Holiday just posted one yesterday
The choice of words the narrator used are important. Especially when he says "slave owners DOWNPLAYED the rebellion of the Seminoles so that other slaves would not rebel." Many of these things are occuring in our nation today. Slavery is a thing of the past, as is written, and noone shall stay in "the wilderness" and everyone shall prosper.
Yeah since the institution of slavery was threaten The South was of course behind this war 100% the Midwest at that time known as the West thought Native Americans everywhere should be taught a lesson. In the Mid-Atlantic States they felt that the Dade Massacre as they called it, even though he walked right into an ambush. Should be Avenged. It was only the New England states that objected to this war in Florida. With all that being said the Seminole Wars was the only Native American War fought in the United States not so much to take the land from Native American but to protect the institution of slavery. Because they knew as long as there was a safe haven for slaves to run to in Florida their whole system their peculiar institution was in jeopardy.
If you mean the only "native american war fought in the US" AGAINST natives for that purpose, maybe. But if you mean "native american wars" in the sense of the word (meaning: including native americans) several tribes, such as the Chickasaw, Creek and Choctaw were practising slavery themselves and fought actively alongside the confederacy against the union to protect the institution of slavery.
@@svene.3856 yes I'm very aware of that also during the Civil War they fought for the Confederacy and that was an Indian Nation present-day Oklahoma. As a matter of fact the very last Confederate general to surrender to the United States was a Cherokee Indian. And the Seminoles also practice slavery as a matter of fact those tribes in the American southeast was called the Five Civilized Tribes because they most imitated white European behavior.
@@grapeshot As far as I know the Seminoles didn't own slaves in the classical sense but just were paid fees of some sorts by them.
@@svene.3856 they were definitely listed as slave owners now I know when it comes down to Native Americans and slave ownership people have a tendency to try to gloss over it but slavery is slavery. And like you said many of them went off to fight in the Confederate Army so they were obviously willing to fight,kill and be killed to protect that peculiar Institution.
@@grapeshot That's right. Either for slavery or against the more hostile indian policies of the federal government or both.
There should be a 'John Horse Day'!
Absolutely!
Very cool! Thank you for shedding some light on this part of history!
Agreed! Perfectionnnnn!!!! Love ittttt
this is my favorite channel. but I gotta say--this history wasn't forgotten. it was intentionally erased. words matter.
i think agent provocateurs have always been pretty good at dividing people into opposing factions.
skin tone is the most obvious "difference" to be exploited.
Unfortunately, many people filled with hatred and denial try to deny the ugly truth of white supremacy; which, in itself, brings a tremendous amount of division amongst all citizens. I say truth hurts the Low in character.
Id love to see a video about US foreign land annexations for military bases; Cuba, Okinawa, Guam, Italy, Germany, Chagos Island (Diego Garcia), Fort Bondstone* Serbia/Kosovo.. etc
Thanks for sharing this. My family are descendants of these people from Gainesville Florida
Do a video on the alliance between the Iroquois and British during the war of 1812! Or the Oneida and Americans during the Revolutionary war
THIS NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE
I was always taught the name seminoles was a result of Indians and Blacks and that name signified them as different from the other tribes in the area.
That’s exactly what I thought as well.
Seminole is the result from several creek nations mixing in florida. They were already considered seminoles when they started coming across blacks and sure some small percentage of blacks mixed but that is not what makes the seminole nation
@@huntermcelroy6792 What the he'll are you talking about boy
That’s why there’s so many mixed blacks and native most of my family is like that
The average black person takes a dna test and barely have any Native American ancestry. I was waiting to see the dumb comment.
@@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 and you said barely which means the dna is still there 😂you don’t have to be 50 50 to have the dna nore know who your ancestors were 😂lol have ah nice day and educate yourself while your at it 😁
More like erased than just simply forgotten about
It is such a tiny small percentage of ppl who mixed with seminol and mostly were white lol that is all of human history anyways isnt it? Ppl move around and mix that is all human nature. Why would something as small as this topic be a focal point? especially when u have no evidence of erased history considering we just looked at it lol
@@huntermcelroy6792 You seem to be a bit jealous. You've replied to more people comments than anyone else as if you created this video. What a miserable life that must be.
THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS TOPIC THIS IS MY BLOODLINE. thanks.
I’d like to know more about Lumbee Tribe and the Lowry War.
I would love to know more about the lumbee tribe myself especially since my grandmother’s results came back 50% lumbee when she did her ancestry testing
Is that the KKK story?
The Choctaw made their mark in my home state of Louisiana also. The name Tangipahoa and Amite are derived from the Choctaw people. We didn't learn a lot about Native Americans when I was in Grade school
Thank you for covering this. This is pretty much my family history. 🤎
So interesting, I love how this channel covers important forgotten stories!!
The Seminoles were the most lenient and loose out of the rest of "The Five Civilized Tribes"
waiting on that John Horse movie
I didn’t know anything about this topic. I learned something today. 👍
The person in the thumbnail looks just like a tanned Cilian Murphy 😂😂😂
I was thinking that 😊
Lol! !!!!
I'd like to hear about the Australian aborigines. In Europe they have 10 to 20 thousand year old cave paintings revered and protected. However, the way older cave painting by aborigines are unprotected and hardly know about. Recently a mining company blew up a site that is 46 thousand years old!
I didn't even know this never learned this on school, absolutely fascinating 😊
Miigwetch for history lesson! I love hearing about other First Nation/Native Americans. Coz I am Algonquin. Ohh especially a beautiful town in Florida before they were pushed away.
This the best and more accurate history channel.
Glad more people will know about this. We called them black Seminole and Never forget our brother at arms. Sad we lost I think all of them and most of our tribe but we still here in Florida Jackson that moron could never get rid of us. SHONABESH (thank you) weird history
If drugs aren’t allowed in sports then why is make up allowed in beauty contests?
A story on the Ojibwa, Red Lake Tribe would be great.
Great video but there are a few more gems in the story, Seminoles are not the 'only' native Indian group in Florida -- the actual Florida natives like Timucuas or Apalachees were displaced by the spanish. The tribe native to my area are pretty much "ghosts" no record or mention of them around here, esp not by name-- but they rebelled, and were shipped off to Cuba in like 1705. Angola was a free-black nation state that was on the gulf coast near Tampa. These folks, were escaped aristocrats from Congo -- and were already Christian. The King of Kongo converted in about 1490. Congo had been roman catholic for about 100 years. Just as a consideration, Spanish colonial Florida was organized on a mission system tied to the roman catholic church. The people who inhabited Angola could have fit into the mission-system 'neatly' -- as it was already familiar to them from Congo, or at a minimum tried to exchange messages with the Church in Congo. When the United States destroyed Angola, some of them escaped to the bahamas where they are know as "Seminoles".
Any serious consideration of Angola upends many of our traditional preconceptions about that entire era. Remarkably there was another Angola in Brazil, also established by captured aristocrats from Congo.
You do know that The Congo and Angola are two separate African kingdoms. So more than likely at least some of those people were from Angola. They also had contact with the Portuguese and mane were Catholic as well.
Need more Native American history! Like how the US constitution is based off native tribal government, and how natives helped win the revolutionary war. So much shi
Love it when im one of the first to watch it. So I can be smart for a day and tell people what I just learned
I love black history 🧙♂️
Weird History they are called Indigenous Americans and or Native Americans... they...DID NOT COME FROM INDIA!!!
Imagine getting offended over a word
I’d like to hear about Evertt Ruess, he was talked about in the book, Into The Wild. He was like Chris on into the wild, he went on huge adventures, except he disappeared somewhere in Utah and to this day we still know nothing about how he died or if he even did.
This needs a movie!
Can we please get more Black history on this channel? Native as well
Do a episode about American history 2021 or soon to be in history 📚
It could also be an episode in a yt channel called Fascinating Horror.
They should do a video on south Chicago's history
Andrew Jackson doesn't come out of this looking all that great!
From the the way it looks in some of the places I go to chat;, non of us white people do. We are all just slave owners and thieves and have stolen everything we know and have from our opposites. I don't know what to say when I'm confronted with that kind of thinking.
Andrew Jackson was NOT a good person regardless of race.
@@MithrilMaia well that's the way people with out race problems would see it. Because he is white he is seen as that. But you are right for sure. I wonder if he was good at something else?
@@pattycake8272 No one is an unjust villain in their own mind, we're all a hero to our own story. That is something I deal with! I said previously in a post aforementioned above. There is grace, dignity, and humanity to admit you're wrong and redress it. Remember the words of George Pompeo, "We lie, We cheat, We steal." I will never forget his words.
@@mattja52 very enlightening thank you.
The “black” seminoles and the native seminoles are the same thing they are playing mind games
There was no such thing as a "Native Seminole tribes". The etymology of the word Seminole originates from the Taino word for runaways. The Spanish adapted the use of the word as cimarrón to describe untamed, wild, runaways. The Creek adapted the word from the Spanish and pronounced it as simanó-li. The British/English hired Creek peoples to catch runaway slaves who escaped to Spanish Florida. There were no tribes there called "Seminole". That is something later termed by British colonizers to group Indigenous peoples of Florida together with. The African descent ones they call Black Seminole. When the African runaways were making their way to Spanish Florida the Indigenous Peoples were very low in number. Not to mention, the Spanish and Black Africans who traveled with the Spanish, would have mated with the local Indigenous peoples, i.e., Mestizos, Afro-Indigenous, and Pardo.
My great grandfather was a wind talker in WW II. Could you do a piece on them? that would be awesome to hear about their trials and tribulations as well.
Please please please cover more Native American history!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😊😊😊😊
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Have you done a video about Free People of Color of New Orleans?
Wow! I did not know there were two different tribes of Seminoles. I learn something new every time I watch a new episode. I guess that shows how good our educational system is.
There was no such thing as a "Native Seminole tribes". The etymology of the word Seminole originates from the Taino word for runaways. The Spanish adapted the use of the word as cimarrón to describe untamed, wild, runaways. The Creek adapted the word from the Spanish and pronounced it as simanó-li. The British/English hired Creek peoples to catch runaway slaves who escaped to Spanish Florida. There were no tribes there called "Seminole". That is something later termed by British colonizers to group Indigenous peoples of Florida together with. The African descent ones they call Black Seminole. When the African runaways were making their way to Spanish Florida the Indigenous Peoples were very low in number. Not to mention, the Spanish and Black Africans who traveled with the Spanish, would have mated with the local Indigenous peoples, i.e., Mestizos, Afro-Indigenous, and Pardo.
My grandma was a black Seminole from Oklahoma.
Not indians.... native american
There not American tho
It’s actually First Nations you dumb goof
@@marlowpooyak2999 well duh dummy 🤦
@@user-ge9lr3md4h "American" refers to the continent, not the country.
This video feels like fresh air. Thank u
Amazing new designs! Been watching for a long time!❤️
Thanks for this great video. Learned a lot in a few minutes about something I had never heard of before.
WHERE IS THE 1990s TIMELINE VIDEO??? Am I going crazy? I could have swore you said the 1990s video series would be coming out in the beginning of 2021...It's just about the middle of February. Where? Where, I say!
I'm guessing they'll be doing it after the Black History Month they're apart of