Article Download PDF Kacper Andruszczak1, Jacopo Battisti2, * 1 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University 2 Istituto Marangoni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Università degli Studi d...

Attached: 1 image October 21, 1837 - The U.S. Army, enforcing President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal Act, captured Seminole leader Osceola (meaning "Black Drink") by inviting him to a peace conference and then seizing him and nineteen others, though they had come under a flag of truce. Under the law, they and the others of the “Five Tribes” (Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Cherokees) were to be moved, by force if necessary, west of the Mississippi to Indian Territory (Arkansas and Oklahoma). The Seminole had moved to Florida (then under the control of Spain) from South Carolina and Georgia as they were forced from their ancestral lands, then forced further south into the Everglades where they settled. #Osceola

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