Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1920 — LAST HOME OF SEMINOLES [ARTICLE]

LAST HOME OF SEMINOLES

Indians to Whom High Tribute Has Been Paid Have Been Removed to Reservation. ______ Now that the state of Florida has gathered the Seminole Indians together and placed them on a definite reservation In one corner of the Everglades, that remarkable tribe attracts passing attention. For many years they have inhabited the Everglades, and been undisputed masters, beyond | the outskirts of that region of swamp and jungle, of some 800 square miles of country which no white traveler has ever penetrated. Few whites have known the at all, and perhaps none better than Mrs. Minnie Moore Wilson, who was recently In- , terviewed for a New York paper. “The Seminole brave,” she said, “Is the most upright man In the world. He Is i altogether moral, and never lies, i cheats, steals or breaks his word, ' while his wonderful squaw holds a j rank in her family and community unrivaled among aR the women of ! earth.” A race could, hardly be more t highly spoken of; and the Seihlnoles themselves, says Mrs. Wilson, dread contact with American civilisation, lest It destroy their own standards of conduct. One cannot kmt sympathize with them when seeing the engineers ' surveying their wilderness. — Christian Science Monitor.