That was that the that enslaved people escaped and were running and assimilated into the Seminole tribes and they became...

No, no, no.

Well you tell me about it then.

No.

Okay.

Talk about a big myth, honey.

Okay.

All right, let me tell you.

In this episode, we're into the war years of the Seminole leader Osceola.

This is part two of our series.

In the first part, we talked about Osceola's childhood,

but now we're talking about how him and his people both in the swamps of Florida were masters of guerrilla warfare,

stretching the American army thin for over 40 years during the Seminole Wars

as America tried to bribe, trick, kill, and capture the Indians to get them out of Florida.

We're searching for the true legacy of Osceola, an important figure in American history.

And I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one.

They also knew because they had been told by their medicine people and some of those

methods of people were called Walle which means a seer was that there was an

end to Florida and that they would be pushed all the way to that end and they could go no farther because there was nothing beyond there but water.

They knew it. And that's what happened.

And that's what happened. The good news is, they're still here today. My name is Clay Newcombe and this is the Bear Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things

forgotten but relevant.

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