Hmm...that's a good question. I don't think we have a name. I don't believe much was going on in south Florida until much later. St. Augustine was the only happening place for a long time. The Florida crackers were trotting around here, cracking their whips and so forth, for quite a while though :)
My immediate area has a lot of historical landmarks involving the Seminole Wars and Osceola. Interesting stuff.
So the Seminole wars were to drive those tribes out of Florida? What are the Florida crackers? The only crackers I've heard of are the slave drivers or foremen who would crack their whips.
It's been a while, but from what I remember there were treaties set up that were not in the favor of the Indians, but they had little choice. I believe it was the Treaty of Moutrie that agreed the Indians would take land west of the Mississippi and hit the road. Osceola didn't like this, and skirmishes began. By that time the natives from my region, the Timucuans, had long since died out. The Seminoles had become one squished together group of many different native cultures.
I don't know much about the Florida crackers. I think they are mysterious figures in history. The "cracker" comes from them cracking their whips on their cattle I believe. They were outcast white people that kept their own company. They existed on cornmeal, which I think has something to do with another theory as to how they got their name "cracker", but I don't recall that story.
Oh, very interesting. I'm sure there is some rich history lessons to dig up on the way the Indians were treated and moved out of Florida. I've never found one tribe that was dealt with fairly. I wonder if there are any Seminoles left? I don't even know if Florida has any reservations, I think most states to do though.
Yeah, there is a Seminole reservation about a hundred miles from where I live. The closest one to me is just over the boarder in Georgia, the Cherokee. I believe it is the Seminoles in South Florida that have the casino on their reservation :)
The Cherokee have one in Georgia? Wow, I thought they were all in Oklahoma. Well I hope the Seminoles are getting rich off the stupid white man! lol.
Lol, I'm sure they are.
Mostly northerners, no doubt ;)
I'm sure!