ORIGINAL APE: those so-called Civilized tribes sided with the Confederacy because they had white chiefs who duped the tribes. The famous Sequoia was a white man. The chief who signed away the sovereign rights and lands of the real Cherokee, was a white mand by the name of Joseph Clark. The dispossessed Cherokee were then sent on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma where 70% of them died on the journey. The Cherokee left in NC, Tenn, and GA were mostly "white" and half-white. Real Indians did not own slaves because they were not American citizens, therefore, the only ones who could own them were the legally "white" ones. The Seminole Indians were really Cherokees who objected to the whites having leadership in their tribes and objected to them selling their lands and making deals with the US government. "Seminole" is the Cherokee word for "runaway". These disgruntled Indians ran away to Florida and liberated many slaves in the process. The Seminole Nation was comprised of almost 40% escaped slaves and fought a 40 year war with the US govt.
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