Seminole

The Seminole Hard Rock and casino Tampa is a four diamond hotel that has a gaming complex. The hotel opened in 2004 and is located on Tampa Reservation off Interstate 4 just east of Tampa Florida. The casino is 190,000 square feet and it is the sixth largest in the world and has expanded multiple times. The casino is a 24 hour venue that permits indoor smoking. Seminole Hard Rock offers a variety of entertainment for instance, they have an international food court and the Hard Rock Cafe,…

The Seminole Indians were also part of the tribes which were ushered out of their homeland in the west. After the ratification of the Indian Removal Act the Seminole tribe encountered the harsh force of the United States. The Seminole fought back in an effort to protect their tribe and their land. Many homes of Seminole people were demolished and their occupants were arrested. The Treaty of Payne’s Landing was signed on May 9, 1832, it surrendered any existing land in Florida owned by the…

The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes gave up their lands without resistance because they did not have any powerful military force. Three Native American groups refused to relocate. One group was the Seminole. This caused the Second Seminole War which later caused the death of uncountable Native Americans (“Richards”). Some individual tribes fought back against the government and settlers. The Sac and Fox Native Americans were easily defeated in The Black Hawk’s War in…

where filled with inexperienced troops. The American troops near the border where commanded by a 61 year old named General Zachary Taylor. General Taylor had gained respect for the fearless way he fought alongside his men 5 years earlier during the Seminole Indian War. Throughout the fall and winter on 1845 General Taylor had time to train his troops to include his officers,…

there no parking, You end up having to park in the back of the parking lot. This is a big problem that Seminole State College,Sanford Lake Mary campus has. If you do not have an eight am class you will be parking in timbuktu. Seminole State needs to have better parking options to the buildings so you do not walk a mile to get to your class. Each year the number of students enrolling to Seminole State increases but the number of parking spots stays the same .There are many options to fix this…

The struggle and persistence for identity and sovereignty by the Seminoles from the 1820s to the 1850s served as an early example of the evolutionary process by way of legal channels and treaty language and negotiation to attain them. Their defiance against removal and Creek integration emerged during an era that defined Native American sovereign status and nationhood in relation to American constitutional interpretation. Their struggle was an early example of a civil rights movement that took…

connection I thought I had with each of the three teams was clearly misinterpreted. Based on my responses to the staging activity, the psychological connection I have with the Seminoles football team is within the allegiance stage which I clearly thought was an attraction because of the amount of fun I have watching the Seminoles complete; the psychological connection I have with the Cleveland Cavaliers are within the allegiance stage, which I for sure thought it was an attraction due to the…

Cherokee, Seminole Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek tribes. Jackson proposed the Act because he disliked the Native Americans in the United States…

most determined warriors and their families migrating southward to take refuge in Spanish Florida.” This of course refers to the First Seminole War (1814-18) when Andrew Jackson was too ambitious at trying to control the Indian problem. While there they merged with the tribes that have lived there for thousands of years and would eventually be known as the Seminoles. Florida was still controlled by Spain up until 1821, although the states surrounding it were already US Territories, and it was…

Everglades. Billie’s journey through the Everglades allows her to explore the Seminole tribe’s legends. Her adventure to the Everglades was initiated by Charlie Wind punishing Billie Wind. In the beginning of her trip she is a doubter and denies the truth in many of her tribe’s legends or in anything that she was doing or was going to do. Billie Wind explores connections between her knowledge of science and the Seminole legends. The wildfire sparked Billie’s ability to become aware of the…