We're saying there's a pattern here where people of color don't get to live as long or aren't as safe in certain circumstances, The Florida Seminoles said, go ahead, for the college team.
And then what was the story of how both of you connected to kind of come together at Prime + Proper? I actually got hired-- the Seminole Tribe of Florida I was working for in Florida before I started work with them. They were in a partnership with the Steinbrenners that owned the Yankees.
longitude. Still, the most effective form of opposition to the survey was armed resistance. And the surveyors eventually encountered a force of hundreds of Seminoles , and as Ellicott put it, they compelled us to relinquish our design and leave the country. So despite efforts by Spain and the United States to use this survey as a chance to show off their national pride and power, it
And I grew up here. In our neighborhood, we had Seminole . My neighbors were-- well, we moved two or three times, but Seminole , Cherokee, particularly, some Chickasaws,
As the commission worked, it started around the Mississippi River and worked east. And as it worked east towards Florida, they ran into lands dominated by Creek and Seminole Indians, who very much resented what this survey was doing because a lot of their influence came from being able to play Spanish and US powers off against each other, right?
We need to find somebody. And it was the coolest thing, that all of a sudden here come the Seminole Tribe leaders knocking on my door going, hey, come to Florida. And I'm like, it's too hot.
And one of the ways that the expedition members tried to overcome this threat was actually hiring different natives as bodyguards. Groups of Upper Creeks got paid by the commissioners to travel with them and protect them from attacks by other Creeks and Seminoles . This is, again, a list of employees.
In our neighborhood, we had Seminole . My neighbors were-- well, we moved two or three times, but Seminole , Cherokee, particularly, some Chickasaws, because of where we're located, mostly Cherokee, mostly Cherokee and Creek, and non-Natives.
They diverted the Gila River water to irrigate their own fields, and the Pima went into what they called the Years of Famine, which lasted for 20 or 30 years. And by 1902, when Frank Rosso, a Harvard anthropologist came to live with the Pima and wrote the Seminole text on the Pima Indians, they were living on a reservation. They were struggling as farmers to survive, and it was it was Rosso who took the photo of Fat Louisa
Slaves are going to revolt everywhere. Was killing Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminoles not enough to quench your imperialism?
Thomas Jefferson, when you told Sally Hemings that you would free her children if she remained your mistress, did you think there was honor in your ultimatum? Was killing Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminoles not enough to quench your imperialism?