Selected Bibliography

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For young readers

  • Asch, Frank. Sawgrass Poems. Orlando: Gulliver Green, 1996.
  • Ed. Buckley, Susan Burt, and Barbara Burt. "The Seminoles." AppleSeeds, Vol. 3, No. 3. Peterborough, N.H.: Cobblestone Publishing, 2000.
  • Douglas, Marjory S. Alligator Crossing. New York: John Day Company, 1959.
  • George, Jean C. Everglades. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
  • * George, Jean C. The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo'. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
  • * Jumper, Betty Mae. Legends of the Seminoles. Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 1994.
  • * Kersey, Harry A., Jr. and Voncile Mallory. The Seminole World of Tommy Tiger. Tallahassee: Florida Department of State, 1982.
  • Koslow, Philip. The Seminole Indians. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 1994.
  • Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Night Bird: Story of the Seminole Indians. New York: Penguin,1995.
  • Lund, Bill. The Seminole Indians. Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books, 1997.
  • Naylor, Phyllis R. To Walk the Sky Path. New York: Dell Publishing, 1973.
  • * Raffa, Edwina and Annelle Rigsby. Escape to the Everglades. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2006.
  • Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. The Seminoles. New York: Holiday House, 1994.
  • Sonneborn, Liz. The Seminole. London: Franklin Watts, 2002.
  • Stefanie Takacs. The Seminole. Danbury, Conn.: Children’s Press, 2004.
  • * Wickman, Patricia R. Seminole Colors. Hollywood, Fla.: Seminole Publications, 1999.
  • Yacowitz, Caryn. Seminole Indians. Orlando: Heinemann Library, 2003.
  • * Yolen, Jane. Welcome to the River of Grass. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001.

For adult readres

  • * Bartram, William. William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
  • Blackard, David M. Patchwork and Palmettos: Seminole-Miccosukee Folk Art Since 1820. Fort Lauderdale: Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, 1990.
  • Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973.
  • Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, Vol. 2. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1973.
  • * Covington, James W. The Seminoles of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.
  • Davis, Hilda J. "The History of Seminole Clothing and Its Multi-Colored Designs." American Anthropologist: 57 (5): 974–980. (JSTOR Database)
  • * Downs, Dorothy. Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
  • * Jumper, Betty Mae and Patsy West. A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
  • Kersey, Harry A., Jr. The Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes: A Critical Bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
  • Kersey, Harry A., Jr. The Seminoles of Florida and the New Deal, 1933–1942. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University Press, 1989.
  • * Kersey, Harry A., Jr. An Assumption of Sovereignty: Social and Political Transformation Among the Florida Seminoles, 1953–1979. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
  • Loughridge, R. M. and David M. Hodge. English and Muskogee Dictionary. Okmulgee, OK: Baptist Home Mission, 1964.
  • * MacCauley, Clay. The Seminole Indians of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
  • * Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War, 1835–1842. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1985.
  • Martin, Jack B. and Margaret McKane Mauldin. A Dictionary of Creek (Muskogee) with Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole dialects of Creek. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
  • Neill, Wilfred T. The Story of Florida's Seminole Indians. St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Company, 1956.
  • Obermeyer, Rick, ed. 19th Century Seminole Men's Clothing. Orlando: Sherwood F. Obermeyer, Jr., 1991.
  • Piper, Harry M., Kenneth Hardin, and Jacquelyn G. Piper. "Cultural Responses to Stress: Patterns Observed in American Indian Burials of the Second Seminole War." Southeastern Archaeology 1(2), 1982: 122–37.
  • Porter, Kenneth. Black Seminoles: The History of a Freedom-Seeking People. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996.
  • * Rush, Beverly. The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork: From Traditional Methods to Contemporary Uses. Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1982. (FSU Special Collections: TT835. R87)
  • Taylor, Colin F. and William C. Sturtevant. The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America. New York: Smithmark, 1971.
  • Trigger, Bruce G. and Wilcomb E. Washburn. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Sturtevant, William C., ed. A Seminole Sourcebook. New York: Garland, 1987.
  • Swanton, John R. Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922.
  • * Weisman, Brent R. Like Beads on a String: A Culture History of the Seminole Indians in North Peninsular Florida. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
  • * Weisman, Brent R. Unconquered People: Florida’s Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.
  • * West, Patsy. The Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes of Southern Florida. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
  • * West, Patsy. The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1998.
  • * Wickman, Patricia R. Osceola’s Legacy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.
  • * Wright, J. Leitch, Jr. Creeks and Seminoles: Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
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