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The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida. They comprise three federally recognized tribes and independent groups, most living in Oklahoma with a minority in Florida. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creek from what are now northern Muscogee. The word Seminole is a corruption of cimarrĂ³n, a Spanish term for “runaway” or “wild one”.
In 1836 The Seminole where responsible for an attack in Bill Bags Cape Florida State Park.