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independent uation. The name of Seininoles was given to them on account of their 

 being principally hunters and attending but little to farming. 



They were very hostile to the Americans up to the cession of Florida in 1819, but a 

 treaty was finally made with them in 1823. Other treaties followed looking to 

 their removal westward, in attempting to carry out which a war ensued, lasting from 

 1835 until 1842. Nearly 2,000 had then been removed, leaving about 300 in Florida 

 and 145 of these, under Billy Bowlegs, joined the western band in the Indian Terri- 

 tory in 1858. Had much trouble in getting settled upon a reservation, locating finally 

 upon a tract of 200,000 acres bought of the Creeks in Indian Territory about 1842, 

 where they now number 2,553— a prosperous and civilized tribe. — W. H. Jackson, 

 1877. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBER. 



Seininoles at Union Agency, Indian Territory, August 31, 1885, 3,000. 

 Civilized. Farmers and herders, slightly increasing in numbers. 



> EU-CHEE. 



[With Seminoles. No tribal existence, June, 1885.] 



Remnant of a powerful tribe who once occupied the southern part of the penin- 

 sula of Florida ; were overrun by the Creeks and Seminolees, the remnant of them 

 merging into the Seminoloe tribe, and living with them now as a part of their nation. 

 Present number, 150. 



I\ir. Oatlin saw them with the Seminoles while prisoners at Fort 

 Moultrie, South Carolina, in December, 1837, and January, 1838. 



3f)9. Etch-ee-fix-e-co, The Deer without a Heart, called u Euchee Jack" ; a chief of 

 considerable renown. 



310. Chee-a-ex-e-co, ; quite a modest and pretty girl, daughter of the above 



chief. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBER. 



They have no tribal existence ; joined the Seminoles in 1842 ; now in 

 Indian Territory. 



THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. 



THE CHEROKEES, CREEKS, CHOCTAWS, SEMINOLES (CHICKASAWS), AND 

 EUCHEES. (NOS. 283 TO 310.) 



The five civilized tribes above enumerated are now located in Indian 

 Territory. The report of Agent Eobert L. Owen, at Muskogee, Union 

 Agency, Indian Territory, for the year ending August 31, 1885, is 

 almost given herein in full. 



For the history of the Indian Territory, together with map of its lauds, 

 see "Public Domain," 3d edition, 1884, Ex. Doc. 47, part 2, 4Gth Con- 

 gress, 3d session, by Thomas Donaldson. 



For the condition, history, and laws of the Iudians in the Indian Ter- 

 ritory, see Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States 

 Senate, Report 1278, 40th Congress, 1st session, parts 1, 2, and 3, June 

 4, 1886. 



