Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 10, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 January 1941 — Life Among the Seminoles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Life Among the Seminoles

The advent of the CCC was a great event in the lives of the Florida Seminoles after the Indian Division was established. The braves can

now work at improving their camps and be paid for it. These pictures , loaned by Dwight Gardin* Seminole agent at Ft. Lauder dale. Fla., show how the tribes live . Right: Despite the Mongolian cast of her features , little Frances Jumper is pure Cow Creek Seminole.

Susie Tiger, above, of the important Seminole Tiger clan, is grinding corn. The mortar she is using may be as old as she is. It was hollowed from cypress.

(In circle) Patriarch Billy Buster squats before his lonely fire. As a young man he killed his brother , and is now an outcast by tribal decree.

Ready to dip into her sofskee pot for a sample is this Miccacuki Seminole matron. This is not madame s kitchen , however , for the whole clan cooks in it. The three pots in the fire mean that three families will partake of the next meal here.

Left: Five top hands among the Seminole cowboys ride out through the cabbage pdim hammock to inspect th eir herds. In just a bit over three years the Glades Reservation . Seminoles have become expert cattlemen and riders.

Representatives of the Great White Father who care for the Seminotes. Left, rear, is Dan Murphy , who heads the Indian department for the CCC, while just behind the pot is John Collier , commissioner of Indian affairs.

A$ • quiet pool in a big cypress swamp Mrs. George Osceola and her two sons are busy washing clothes. They waded to this spot.