Continuing Armistead’s system of raids during that summer, Worth cleared the Cove of the Withlacoochee and much of northern Florida. Capturing Coacoochee on June 4, he used the Seminole leader to bring in those who were resisting. This proved partially successful.

Second Seminole War, conflict (1835–42) that arose when the United States undertook to force the Seminole Indians to move from a reservation in central Florida to the Creek reservation west of the Mississippi River. It was the longest of the wars of Indian removal.

The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until 1842. The Treaty of Payne’s Landing would require the Seminoles to move west to the land appointed to the Creek Indians. If the land was deemed suitable by the Seminoles, also they were wanted to be ‘absorbed’ by the Creeks.

How did land in the Indian territory compared to the land in the Indians Homeland? The land was smaller and less fertile. How do you think being forced to leave their homeland affecting the Indian’s way of life?

The Third Seminole War (1855–1858) was again the result of Seminoles responding to settlers and U.S. Army scouting parties encroaching on their lands, perhaps deliberately to provoke a violent response that would result in the removal of the last of the Seminoles from Florida.

The Seminole people originally lived in log cabins in North Florida, but when they were forced to move to the swampy lands of Southern Florida they lived in homes called chickees. A chickee had a raised floor, a thatched roof supported by wooden posts, and open sides.

Teepees were useful for tribes were moved a lot because they could easily be taken apart. They were usually used by the Iroquois tribes. As their name suggests, they were long—they could be 200 feet long and twenty feet wide.

The vast majority of American Indians in the US live in the Western states and Alaska. Some Indians do still live in traditional style houses like Navajo hogans and Pueblo communal pueblos, but very few still live in tipis on a full time basis.

The Iroquois people of upstate New York were among them. To the Iroquois people, the longhouse meant much more than the building where they lived. The longhouse was also a symbol for many of the traditions of their society. Five nations formed the original Iroquois Confederacy.

From historic sources we know that it was common for two families to share each hearth found along the central corridor of the longhouse. So while a longhouse would have been a crowded, noisy, and lively place to reside, all that noise was the sound of a family living together.