Seminole

In the record

The United States made 5 treaties and agreements that name Seminole as a party, from Treaty of Payne's Landing with the Seminole, 1832 to Reconstruction Treaty with the Seminole, 1866.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Seminole: about 8.2 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 3 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Seminole in Florida, ceded 1832 (area 173), about 6.2 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Payne's Landing with the Seminole, 1832.

The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises involving Seminole: Seminole removal: Payne's Landing (1832), Fort Gibson (1833) and the Second Seminole War, Curtis Act (1898) and Oklahoma statehood (1907): Five Tribes governments dismantled and lands allotted and McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020): the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was never disestablished. 2 court cases turned on their rights: Seminole Nation v. United States and McGirt v. Oklahoma.

The records group it with Florida Tribes (Moultrie Creek). Today, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Seminole Tribe of Florida carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

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.