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PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBER. 



Choctaws at Union Agency, Indian Territory, August 31, 1885, 18,000. 

 All civilized. Farmers and traders. One of the five civilized tribes. 

 See also title "The Five Civilized Tribes," page 221, herein. 



SEM-I-NO-LEE (RUNAWAY) ; 3,000. 



[Seminole: Laws of the United States. Seminole: Indian Bureau, June, 1885.] 



Occupying the peninsula of Florida ; semi-civilized, partly agricultural. The Gov- 

 ernment h;is succeeded in removing about one-half of them to the Arkansas, during 

 the last lour years, at the expense of $32,000,000, the lives of twenty-eight or thirty 

 officers and six hundred soldiers. 



Mr. Catliu was with them at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, Decem- 

 ber, 1837, and January, 1838. 



300. Mick-e-no-pah, ; first chief of the tribe; full length, sitting cross- 

 legged. Painted in 1837. 



(Plate No. 305, page 221, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



This man owned one hundred negroes when the war broke out, and was raising 

 large and valuable crops of corn and cotton. 



Mick-e-no-pah (Xo. 300) is the head chief of the tribe, and a very lusty and digni- 

 fied man. He took great pleasure in being present every day in my room whilst I 

 was painting the others, but positively refused to be painted until he found that a 

 bottle of whisky and another of wine, which I kept on my. mantel-piece, by permission 

 of my kind friend Captain Morrison, were only to deal out their occasional kindnesses 

 to those who sat for their portraits, when he at length agreed to be painted "if I 

 could make a fair likeness of his legs," which he had very tastefully dressed in a 

 handsome pair of red leggins, and upon which I at once began (as he sat cross-legged), 

 by painting them on the lower part of the canvass, leaving room for his body^ and 

 head above; all of which, through the irresistible influence of a few kindnesses from 

 my bottle of wine, I soon fastened to the canvass, where they will firmly stand, I trust, 

 for some hundreds of years. — G. C. 



JUDGE JAMES HALL'S NOTES ON MICANOPY. 



Micanopy (head chief), with portrait, McKenney & Hall, vol.2, page 188, by in. 

 heritance the principal chief, or head man, of all of the bands of Seminoles; by some 

 writers called king, and by others called governor; a very black man; his grand- 

 father, King Payne, married a Yemassee woman, his slave. 



He commanded in the defeat and massacre of Major Dade's command, December 

 28, 1835, near the crossing of the Big and Little Ouithlacoochee Eiver, Florida, where, 

 out of a force of more than 100, 3 only survived. 



MR. 31. M. COHEN'S NOTES ON MICANOPY. 



Mr. Cohen, in his " Notice of Florida," gives the following description 

 of Micanopy : 



The governor is of low, stout, and gross stature, and what is called loggy in his 

 movements ; his face is bloated and carbuncled ; eyes heavy and dull, and with a 

 mind like his person. Colonel Gadsden told me, at Payne's Landing [that], after 



