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them the Everglades to live in forever, and they do not feel kindly 
towards the white men who are gradually penetrating further and 
further into what they consider to be their domain. 
The names of the following war chiefs, of whom I have given a 
brief biography, are remembered by many of the present generation 
of Florida Indians. 
OSCEOLA, war chief of the Seminole tribe. He was born about 
the year 1803, and was the son of an English trader named Powell, 
his mother being a daughter of a Seminole chief. He was also. 
called Assini Yahola and Powell, which was the surname of the- 
white man who married his mother. Osceola signifies the rising 
sun. The grandfather of Osceola was a Scotchman who married a 
Creek woman; his father, therefore, was a half-breed, but his 
mother was a Creek woman of pure blood. He was born on the: 
Tallapoosa River between the years 1800 and 1806. He was noted 
as a ball-player and hunter and for running and wrestling. At the- 
time of the Seminole War he was not as great a chief as Jumper, 
Holata Mico, or Coa Hajo, or Holato Mico, or Red Stick, but rose: 
to prominence during the Indian hostilities. Osceola soon became 
one of the leading chiefs on account of his activity and success in 
the Indian War. He had two wives, both of them young. It is 
claimed he was taken prisoner at last by treachery while holding a. 
conference under a flag of truce, and died of inflammation of the 
throat in 1838, while confined at Sullivan’s Island as a prisoner: 
of war. 
NEAMATHLA was by birth a Creek, and was at one time the 
most distinguished chief in the Seminole tribe. Neamathla returned 
to the Creeks about the year 1826, and sat in council with them in 
1827. Foke Luste Hajo was at that time one of the principal 
Florida chiefs. He was one of the seven who was appointed to. 
visit and explore the country offered to the Seminoles west of the 
Mississippi. His associates were Holata Amathla, Jumper, Charlie 
Amathla, Coa Hajo Arpiucki, and Yaha Hajo. He was friendly 
to the whites, and in 1835, at the declaration of war, he was warned 
to leave the country by the other Indians. Hola Amathla, Otulke- 
