Standing Against the Tide: Preserving the Seminole History on Egmont Key
Author(s): David W Scheidecker; Lacee Cofer; Laura K Harrison; Brooke Hansen
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Between 1857 and 1858 as the Seminole Tribe rebelled against the American policy of forced Indian Removal, hundreds of captive Seminole Tribal members were held by the US army in a prison camp on the Island of Egmont Key. Nearly all were non-combatants, women, children, and elders who were taken from their homes to be removed to Indian Territory out west. Egmont Key saw the last voyage of Indian Removal east of the Mississippi. Now the island is at risk of disappearing due to environmental impacts, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida Tribal Historic Preservation Office is working with the University of South Florida Access 3D Lab to digitally scan the island and preserve the history of the prison and the legacy left on the Tribes before Egmont Key is lost forever.
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Standing Against the Tide: Preserving the Seminole History on Egmont Key. David W Scheidecker, Lacee Cofer, Laura K Harrison, Brooke Hansen. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457381)
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Keywords
General
Military
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Prison
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Seminole
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1800s
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 619