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The Black Seminoles of Brackettville, Texas |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Ian Hancock |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 4,357 Words, 25,789 Characters |
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I first heard that there were Black Seminoles in 1975, over a pitcher of beer at an Austin watering hole near the University of Texas campus. Like most people, I associated Seminoles with Florida, and I had assumed that they were a Native American population. Thus I was surprised to learn that a community of African descent calling itself Seminole lived some two hundred miles due southwest in a small town called Brackettville.
The topic came up during a discussion about African-Americans on the western frontier. One of the group mentioned that she'd had a student who was interested in the Texas Cavalry, who had gone to Brackettville to interview an elderly surviving member of the Seminole Scouts. The following day, I located all I could on the Texas Seminoles--the standard work is st...
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... told me that there were terrible and fabulous tales of their history known only to the old folk, which have never been told to anyone, not even the children and grandchildren. He told me that earlier investigators were even intentionally misled to protect those memories. Like the language itself, Afro-Seminole history may well pass into time, ever to remain largely unknown to the rest of us.
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