Abstract
In 1930, special agent Roy Nash entered the swamps of the Everglades and came face-to-face with a Seminole Indian. Sent by the United States government to conduct a survey of Florida's indigenous population, Nash traveled for nine hours "through mud and moonlight" in search of a Seminole village. In the opening page of his report to Congress, Nash painted a vivid portrait of Florida's remaining Indians. Standing with a poised spear in a dugout canoe, Nash's archetypal Seminole was an "astounding anachronism," "a primitive hunter 30 miles from a center of industrial civilization." Clothed in a brightly-colored, knee-length shirt, belted at the waist, this Seminole was "a man apart."1
Recommended Citation
Adams, Mikaela M.
(2020)
"Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865-1934,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 87:
No.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol87/iss3/6
