The runaway and the free whose Everglades nation sheltered escaped slaves and defied three American armies to become the unconquered people of the South.
Seminole People — the Native American nation whose origins in the eighteenth century migration of Creek and other Muscogean-speaking peoples from Georgia and Alabama into the depopulated lands of Spanish Florida, their name derived from the Creek word simanó-li meaning wild or runaway, reflecting their identity as a people who had separated themselves from the Creek Confederacy to build a new nation in the Florida peninsula whose Spanish colonial authorities welcomed them as a buffer against British and American expansion, connect them to one of the most dramatic and morally complex stories in the entire history of Native American resistance, the Seminole people's three wars against the United States Army representing the longest, costliest, and ultimately most inconclusive military campaigns the United States ever waged against a Native American nation. The Seminole world — whose communities in Spanish and then American Florida became a refuge for escaped enslaved people from the plantations of Georgia and the Carolinas, the Black Seminoles whose integration into Seminole society as allies, interpreters, and warriors created a multiracial freedom community that the slaveholding states of the American South found intolerable and whose destruction became one of the primary motivations for the First Seminole War of 1817 to 1818 and Andrew Jackson's invasion of Florida, whose great leader Osceola — the mixed-heritage warrior whose capture under a flag of truce by American General Thomas Jesup in 1837 in one of the most dishonorable acts of the Second Seminole War shocked even American public opinion and made Osceola a martyr whose image became the most recognizable symbol of Native American resistance in the nineteenth century — led the Seminole resistance through the Second Seminole War of 1835 to 1842 that cost the United States forty million dollars and fifteen hundred soldiers' lives without achieving the removal of the Florida Seminoles, the unconquered remnant who retreated into the Everglades becoming the ancestors of the Miccosukee Tribe and the Seminole Tribe of Florida whose members today govern their sovereign nation with the pride of people who faced the full military power of the United States and were never defeated. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that unconquered and freedom-sheltering legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.
HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry flags of native Americans in the US. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse US population.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt will be made especially for you as soon as you place an order.
Few more things to know about this product: • Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience • Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand • 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric • Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
