osceola

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{i} (1800-38) leader of the Seminole Indian tribe of Florida, leader of the 1835 resistance to forced relocation of Indians in the southeastern United States
born 1804, Georgia, U.S. died Jan. 30, 1838, Charleston, S.C. Seminole Indian leader during the Second Seminole War. The war began in 1835 when the U.S. government attempted to force the Seminole off their traditional lands in Florida and into the Indian territory west of the Mississippi River. Osceola and his followers employed guerrilla tactics and forced a truce. During negotiations he was arrested and removed to a military fort at Charleston, S.C., where he died

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(1800-1838) leader of the Seminole Indian tribe of Florida, leader of the 1835 resistance to the resettlement of Indians by white settlers