Oklahoma Seminoles: Medicines, Magic, and Religion (Volume 166) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Oklahoma Seminoles: Medicines, Magic, and Religion (Volume 166) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) Oklahoma Seminoles: Medicines, Magic, and Religion (Volume 166) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) OTHER ARTICLES Mention the name Seminole and most Americans think of the Florida segment of the tribe—Indian men in colorful shirts poling dugouts through the black waters of the Everglades and women sewing patchwork in palmetto-thatched chickees. But another Seminole population, much larger in numbers, lives in the prairie and scrub oak hill country of Oklahoma.Studies of the Oklahoma segment of the tribe have been few, and James H. Howard’s objective in writing this book has been to record the richness of Seminole culture in the West, presenting that culture as it is seen and interpreted by its more traditional members in Oklahoma today.Much of the Seminole culture is held in common, but many differences have grown up between the two groups since the “Trai...