The Seminole Indians

NAME: The name Seminole means The Wild One. They chose the name because they loved freedom.

GEOGRAPHY: The Seminole's Tribe is found in Florida now. They, like many tribes, were forced out of their own territory into a very small area by the government.

FOOD: Seminole women were farmers. The men did the hunting.

HAIR & CLOTHING: The women wore long dresses that were diagonally striped and very colorful. They went all the way to the ground. The children wore patch-like dresses and braids until they were 3 years old. The men wore breech cloths.

SHELTER: The Seminole Indians lived in homes called chikees. Chikees are cypress logs and palm thatch leaves woven together. It has no walls, only a thatch roof that covered the area around the upward housing cypress logs submerged shallowly into the earth.

MOBILITY: The Seminole Indians used dugout canoes made out of cypress wood.

FAMILIES: The men and women gathered the food in there own ways, as shown in the FOOD section. Both genders took part in storytelling, music, and artwork.