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An assumption of sovereigntyBook 1996 • Kersey, Harry A.
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph discusses two important issues for Native Americans -- sovereignty and polity. The author shows how these two concepts apply to the Seminoles of Florida particularly during the volatile decades following World War II during which the t...Patchwork and politicsessay 1995 • Kersey, Harry A. & Bannan, Helen M.
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper traces the changing gender-specific roles of women in Seminole society from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the latter time period. The authors stress in particular the entry of women into tribal politics as a r...Pelts, plumes, and hidesBook 1975 • Kersey, Harry A., 1935
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This study examines in depth the nature of the Indian trade on the Florida frontiers during the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus on the reciprocal economic and social relationships which developed between the traders, th...My work among the Florida SeminolesBook 1982 • Glenn, James Lafayette & Kersey, Harry A.
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This source is a memoir in the form of an extended letter in which the author relates his observations of Seminole life, values, and material culture and the federal government's administration of the Seminoles during his tenure as an United States I...