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Title: Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Cory, Charles Barney, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Birds Seminole Indians
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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INDIAN CAMP, NEW RIVER. Tin-: SIIMINOIJ; INDIANS. 31 near Miami River, (3) on Fish Ealing Creek, northwest of LakeOkeechobee. (4) on Cow Creek, northeast of Okeechobee, and(5) at Cat Fish Lake. There are a number of families who ha\etemporary camps in other locahlies, and some few Inchans havewhat they call their permanent camps outside of these xillages,there being, I am told, several Indians liviuir on the islands in
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tlie Everglades, and four or tive families liave camps on NewRiver: but nearlv all of these have camps elsewhere as well. Thenumber of Seminole Indians in Florida is variouslv estimated asfrom 250 to 350, and it is possible the)- may exceed that number.Many of the Okeechobee Indians are descendants of the Creeksor Muskogees, as the language spoken there seems to be of that 33 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. tribe. The language spoken by the Miami Indians is somewhatdifferent. The chief seat of government is located at Fish Eating Creek, andat this camp resides Hospataki and Tustanugge, who are chiefs ofnote, although, as I understand it, there has been no regularlyrecoo-nized head chief among the Seminole Indians since the deathof Tiger Tail. It was customary in the old da3s to have the chieftain-ship descend in the female line, but this is not so at present, and ifa chief is now elected it is done by the council. SEMINOLE HISTORY. There is a tradition handed down from one generation

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