Draft:Minnie Moore Willson

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Minnie Moore-Willson was an author, women's club president, and naturalist from Pennsylvania who advocated for the Seminoles in Florida.[1][2][3][4]

Seminole background edit

Seminole Wars Lt. Richard H. Pratt, 1879

left in peace for a time, but exposed to local justice, incidents

She served as president of the Women's National Indian Association

state not feds [5]

The Seminoles of Florida, 1896 edit

George Washington Manypenny Our Indian Wards Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor Charles H. Coe Red Patriots [6]

Friends of the Florida Seminoles, 1899 edit

should be main article Friends of the Florida Seminoles

January 7, 1899 Friends of the Florida Seminoles in Kissimmee Rt. Rev. William Crane Gray Bishop, President; Rev D. A. Dodge; Senator Charles A. Carson Treasurer; James M. Willson, Secretary

George W. Wilson Times-Union and Citizen; Dr. Jacob E. Brecht Fort Myers agent; Francis A. Hendry; Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew (2)(world's first ordinance to regulate aviation in 1908[2]) Kissimmee Valley Gazette; R. H. Seymour Mayor [7]

The Indian's Friend calls for federal troops, answered by Times-Union and Citizen "...a reproach to the State of Florida that these things are so..."[8]

Tom Tiger's Horse edit

Tuestenugee[9] Cow Creek Seminole band in accounts of Frederick A. Ober[10],Pratt[11], Clay MacCauley[12], Wilson[13],and The Seminoles of Florida[14]

Cow Creek edit

"Mother of the Seminole Land Bill" edit

Works edit

  • The Seminoles of Florida. 1896. OCLC 45625917.
  • The Least Known Wilderness of America, The Everglades of Florida. 1917. OCLC 28612544.
  • Snap Shots From the Everglades of Florida, Jungle Life of the Seminole. 1917. OCLC 1743333.
  • The Birds of the Everglades, And Their Neighbors the Seminole Indians. Tampa, Fla., Tampa Tribune Pub. Co. 1920. OCLC 463788121.
  • History of Osceola county; Florida frontier life. The Inland press. 1935. OCLC 1820351.

Notes edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ "Everglades Digital Library".
  2. ^ "Mrs. Willson, Authority On Seminoles Dies". The Tampa Tribune. August 9, 1937. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Robison, Jim (2009). Historic Osceola County: An Illustrated History. HPN Books. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-935377-02-3.
  4. ^ "Everglades Indians Paragons, Says Pale Fairface Who Knows". The Sun (New York City). September 7, 1919. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Kersey 1974, p. 1.
  6. ^ Kersey 1974, p. 6.
  7. ^ Kersey 1974, pp. 5–6.
  8. ^ Kersey 1974, pp. 7.
  9. ^ "Florida's Most Respected Seminole: Tom Tiger". 10 December 1989.
  10. ^ Ober, Frederick A. (August 1875). "Ten Days with the Seminoles". Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. 14, no. 173.
  11. ^ William C. Sturtevant's "R.H. Pratt's Report"
  12. ^ MacCauley, Clay (1887). "The Seminole Indians of Florida". Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. p. 518.
  13. ^ U. S.Congress, Senate, Message From the President... Lands Upon Which to Locate Seminole Indians, p. 8 that's Special Indian Agent A. M. Wilson, 50th Congress, 1st Session[1]
  14. ^ Moore-Willson 1896, pp. 148–154.

References edit

  • Adams, Mikaëla M. (Winter 2009). "Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865-1934". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 87 (3): 404–435. JSTOR 20700234.
  • Covington, James M. (July 1985). "Formation of the State of Florida Indian Reservation". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 62–75. JSTOR 30149907.
  • Kersey, Harry A. (January 1978). "Private Societies and the Maintenance of Seminole Tribal Integrity, 1899-1957". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 56 (3): 297–316. JSTOR 30147442.
  • Wilhelm, Chris (Spring 2012). "Pragmatism, Seminoles, and Science: Opposition to Progressive Everglades Drainage". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 90 (4): 426–52. JSTOR 23264715.