| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga. By Susan A. Miller. (Lawrence: University Press of Kan-sas, 2003. xx, 264 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1195-9.)
Susan A. Miller, a Seminole, writes about the nineteenth-century Seminole leader Coacoochee (Wild Cat) and his exploits in Florida, Indian Territory, Texas, and Mexico. Born near Florida's Oklawaha River between 1808 and 1816 into an elite family of the powerful Wind Clan, Coacoochee impressed others with his oratory, intelligence, good looks, and dress. Some considered him the most talented Seminole hampered by occasional misuse of alcohol.	1
Coacoochee, a major resistance leader at the end of the second Seminole war, regretted leaving his Florida homeland and the graves of tribal members, whose hovering spirits completed the community. Forced west with other Seminoles and African Americans who arrived at Fort Gibson in November 1841, Coacoochee refused to settle among the Creeks, and his group located on Cherokee land south of the fort.	. . .

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