OSCEOLA

Osceola

Osceola, born as Billy Powell, became an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida. Of mixed parentage: Creek, Scots-Irish, and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system. They migrated to Florida when he was a child, with other Red Stick refugees after their defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars.

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