A collection of folk stories talk about human, animal, and spirit characters who act out important lessons about living in the natural world of the Florida Ever

"An excellent case study of a little-studied and poorly known community experiencing the processes of identity formation and culture change."--Brent R. Weisman,

This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom. Beginning

A brief biography of the Seminole leader who fought against President Jackson's decree to move his people west.

Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's hi