Leading chief of the Seminoles

Leading chief of the Seminoles

There were four leading chiefs of the Seminoles between the time the tribe organized in the mid 18th century until Micanopy was sent to Indian Territory following the Second Seminole War.

*Cowkeeper
*King Payne
*Bolek
*Micanopy


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