Alligator
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- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Indian History
Article abstract: Chief Alligator was considered among the bravest and most capable Seminole leaders during the Second Seminole War{$ISeminole Wars}.
The Seminole Indians originated among the Lower Creeks living along the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. With encroachment by whites during the late eighteenth century, they began moving down the Florida peninsula and adopted the name Seminole, which meant “separate.” Eventually comprising some twenty villages, the Seminoles fought against the U.S. Army several times during the first decades of the nineteenth...
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