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Seminole Tribe of Florida · seminole tribe of florida · cimarrónes · cimarronesSeminole Tribe of Florida
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- Official name
- Seminole Tribe of Florida
- Recorded status
- Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
- Region
- Florida
In the record
One court case turned on its rights: Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida.
This nation carries the history of Florida Tribes (Moultrie Creek) and Seminole in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Official names
Names in treaties and records
Land recorded as ceded
This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:
- Treaty or agreement29 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
2 cessions. Follow Florida Tribes (Moultrie Creek) through the years on the map
- Treaty or agreement1 million
- Treaty under documented pressure7 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
5 cessions. Follow Seminole through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 8, matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Certain chiefs in Florida in Florida, ceded 1833 (area 185)1823
- Land of the Florida tribes in Florida, ceded 1823 (area 118)1823
- Land of the Seminole in Florida, ceded 1832 (area 173)1823
- Reservation of the Florida tribes in Florida (area 119)1823
- Land of the Creek and Seminole in Oklahoma, recorded 1833 (area 404)1833
- Land of the Seminole in Oklahoma, ceded 1866 (area 480)1856
- Reservation of the Seminole in Oklahoma (area 481)1866
- Land of the Creek and Seminole in Oklahoma, ceded 1873 (area 543)1873
Carries the treaty history of 2
Named in 1
Sources
- stofthpo.com/unclassified
Seminole leaders met with American representatives at Moultrie Creek to negotiate an end to the war.
- semtribe.com/history/introductionunclassified
They called us cimarrónes , the Spanish word for “runaways” or “wild ones”.
- semtribe.com/unclassified
Seminole Tribe of Florida We are a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe.
- Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Research notes
Name as printed in cases-seed.
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