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SEKWU SEMINOLE 



[B. A. E. 



Sekwu {Se¥-ivu). TheKlikitatname of 

 a village at the forks of Cowlitz r. , Wash. , 

 in 1863, presumably belonging to the Cow- 

 litz tribe.— Gibbs, MS. no. 248, B. A. E. 



Sela,\k-wo{Sel-al/-kivo) . A Salish village, 

 about 1863, below the forks of Dwamish 

 r., Wash., and probably below the junc- 

 tion of White and Green rs. — Gibbs, MS. 

 no. 248, B. A. E. 



Selawigmiut. A trilie of Alaskan Es- 

 kimo living on Selawik lake, e. of Kotze- 

 bue sd., Alaska. Thev numbered 100 in 

 1880. 



Chilivik, — Zagoskin, Descr. Russ. Poss. Am., I, 74, 

 1S47. Seelawik Mutes. — Kellv, Arct. Eskimos, 

 chart, 1890. Selawigamute.— Petroff in 10th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 4, 1S84. Selawig'mut. — Dall in Cont. 

 N. A. EthnoL, 1, 12, 1877. Silawi'nmiun.— Murdoch 

 in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 44, 1892. Sulawig-meuts.— 

 Hooper, Cruise of Corwin, 26, 1881. 



Seldovia (Russian: 'herring'). A Kan- 

 iagniiut Eskimo village on the s. side of 

 Kachemakbav, w. coast of Kenai penin., 

 Alaska. Pop.'74inl880; 99 in 1890. (Pe- 

 troff, 10th Census, Alaska, 29, 1884. ) 



Selelot (Srl^eldt). A Squawmish divi- 

 sion living on JBurrard inlet, coast of 

 British Columbia.— Boas, MS., B. A. E., 

 1887. 



Selenite. See Gi/psum. 



Seleuxa. A former Seminole townatthe 

 head of Ocilla r., probably in Madison co., 

 Fla.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 74 ( 1823) , 19th Cong. , 

 Istsess., 27, 1826. 



Selikwayi {Sellhrd^yl). A Cherokee 

 settlement, al)out the time of the removal 

 of the tribe to the W. in 1839, on Sallacoa 

 or., probably at or near the present Salla- 

 coa, Cherokee co. , n. w. Ga. The name is 

 that of a small green snake, and of a tall 

 broad-l)laded grass bearing a fancied re- 

 semblance to it. (.J. M. ) 

 Sallicoah. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in 5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Selkuta {Sel-ku^-ta). A Bellacoola vil- 

 lage on the N. side of the mouth of Bella- 

 coola r., Brit. Col. — Boas in Mem. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hi.st., ii, 49, 1898. 



Sels ('food-steamers'). The name ap- 

 plied, probably contemptuously, to a 

 Haida family of low social rank which 

 formed a subdivision of the Hlgahetgu- 

 lanas. It is related that the people of this 

 family were so much in the habit of steam- 

 ingfood that oneof their women once said, 

 "We shall be called 'food-steamers'"; 

 and so it happened. Low-class people in 

 other families seem to have received the 

 same name. — S wanton, Cont. Haida, 270, 

 1905. 



Seltsas (SElts^d^s). A Katsey summer 

 village at the head of Pitt lake, which 

 drains into lower Eraser r., Brit. Col. — 

 Boas in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 454, 1894. 



Semeckamenee. See Sevackenaem. 



Semehau {Seiiiexci'u, ' little lynx'). A 

 village of the Spences Bridge band of 

 Ntlakyapamuk on the n. side of Thomp- 

 son r., 32 m. from Lvtton, Brit. Col. — Teit 

 in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 173, 1900. 



Semiahmoo. A Salish tribe living about 

 the bay of the same name in n. w. Wash- 

 ington and s. w. British Columbia. In 1843 

 they numVjered 300, and in 1909 there were 

 38 of the tribe on the Canadian side. 



Birch Bay.— Farnham, Trav., Ill, 1813. Samam- 

 hoo.— Can. Ind. Alf., 308, 1,S79. Semiahmoo.— Wil- 

 sonin Jour. Etlinol. .S(jc. Lond., 278, 18U6. Semi- 

 a'mo.— Boas in .'ith Rep. N. \V. Tribes, Can., 10, 

 1889. Sem-mi-an-mas. — Fitzhusfh in Ind. Aflf. Rep. 

 1857, 328, 1858. Shimiahmoo.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. 

 Rep., 1, 433, 1855. Simiahmoo . — Gibljs, Clallam and 

 Lummi, 6, 1S(;3. Simiamo. — Tolraie and Daw- 

 son, Voeabs. Brit. Col., 119b, 1884. Skim-i-ah- 

 moo.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 436, 1855. 



Seminole (Creek: Sini-a-nu'-h', or Isti 

 simanule, 'separatist', 'runaway'). A 

 Muskhogean tribe of Florida, originally 

 made up of immigrants from the Lower 

 C'reek towns on Chattahoochee r., who 

 moved down into Florida following the 

 destruction of the Apalachee (q. v.) and 

 other native tribes. They were at first 

 classed with the Lower Creeks, but began 

 to be known under their present name 

 about 1775. Those still residing in 

 Florida call themselves Ikaniiiksalgi, 

 ' peninsula people' (Gatschet). 



The Seminole, before the removal of the 

 main body to Indian Ter. , consisted chiefly 

 of descendants of Muscogee (Creeks) 

 and Hitchiti from the Lower Creek towns, 

 with a considerable number of refugees 

 from the Upper Creeks after the Creek 

 war, together with remnants of Yamasce 

 and other conquered tribes, Yuchi, and 

 a large negro element from runaway 

 slaves. When Hawkins wrote, in 1799, 

 they had 7 towns, which increased to 20 

 or more as they overran the peninsula. 



While still under Spanish rule the 

 Seminole became involved in hostility 

 with the United States, jiarticularly in the 

 War of 1812, and again in 1817-18, the 

 latter being known as the first Seminole 

 war. This war was quelled by Gen. 

 Andrew Jackson, who invaded Florida 

 with a force exceeding 3,000 men, as the 

 result of which Spain ceded the territory 

 to the United States in 1819. By treaty of 

 Ft Moultrie in 1823, the Seminole ceded 

 most of their lands, excepting a central 

 reservation; but on account of pressure 

 from the border population for their com- 

 plete removal, another treaty was nego- 

 tiated at Paynes Landing in 1832, by 

 which they were bound to remove be- 

 yond the Mississippi within 3 years. 

 The treaty was repudiated by a large pro- 

 portion of the tribe, who, under the lead- 

 ership of the celebrated Osceola (q. v.), 

 at once prepared for resistance. Thus 

 began the second Seminole war in 1835, 

 with the killing of Emathla, the princi- 

 pal signer of the removal treaty, and ol 

 Gen. A. R. Thompson, who had been in- 

 strumental in applying pressure to those 

 who opposed the arrangement. The war 

 lasted nearly 8 years, ending in Aug. 1842, 

 with the practical expatriation of the tribe 



