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NA. Native Americans (including Seminole Indians) and Early Florida

 Classification
Identifier: NA

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Lord's Prayer in Hitchiti

 Collection
Identifier: Recording Number 16
Abstract

A recording of the Seminole spoken language.

Dates: 1957

Seminole music

 Collection
Identifier: Recording Number 14
Abstract

A recording of Seminole music made at the Brighton Reservation in the 1930s.

Dates: Date unknown

Seminole Legends, Dances and Religious Songs

 Collection
Identifier: Recording Number 15
Abstract

A recording of Seminole legends and songs made at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation.

Dates: 1957

Seminole Songs

 Collection
Identifier: Recording Number 11
Abstract

Recording of Harry Jumper singing traditional Seminole songs.

Dates: April 20, 1954

Seminole Medicine Chants and Songs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0569
Abstract

Recordings of Seminole medicine chants and songs. Naturalist J. Harold Matteson recorded the chants and songs and includes a historical narrative.

Dates: circa 1940s

Indian Affairs - Florida Seminoles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 147
Abstract

Photocopies of correspondence, reports, and other papers related to the Seminole Tribe of Florida found in the National Archives, primarily in the files of the Office of Indian Affairs between 1820 and 1897.

Dates: 1820-1974; Majority of material found within 1881-1947

William Davenport Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms 022
Abstract

Two small pocket diaries and personal and official correspondence of Davenport, who saw service in Florida during the Second Seminole War.

Dates: 1835-1842

Louis Bishop Capron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms 011
Abstract

The Louis Bishop Capron Papers comprise personal correspondence, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, and photographs of this children's author and amateur ethnographer of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Most of the materials pertain to Capron's interest in and friendship with the Seminoles.

Dates: 1913-1971

Edward T. Keenan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms 059
Abstract

Notes of Seminole War fort locations; photocopied originals of scouting reports, diaries, correspondence from the National Archives and typed transcriptions; photos of Seminoles. Compiled by Edward T. Keenan and Thomas Brown.

Dates: 1835-1960

Charles W. Spellman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms 094
Abstract

Papers written by or copied for Charles W. Spellman pertaining to his research on Catholic and Indian history. Location is primarily Florida but does extend to Georgia and Carolina history. Most of the reproduced documents come from the colonial era however there is correspondence from 1947-1952.

Dates: 1618-1952; Majority of material found within 1947-1952