MICCOSUKEE LAW
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“To [Morton] Silver he [Buffalo Tiger] said, “They say you are not fired. The Indian rules say when Indians have a spokesman for the people and he finishes the job, they give the Indian spokesman a piece of medicine.”
“The Indian rules say when you are fired you have to be paid with money. Ingraham Billie didn’t pay you.
You are not fired.”
-Buffalo Tiger
Seminoles Fire Medicine Man
Miami Daily News
March 11, 1957
p.8A
Written by
Jane Wood Reno,
mother of former U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno.
“Fire Your Lawyers”
-Indian Commissioner, Max Denton
Miami News, p.12-A
March 19, 1958
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Letter of
November 15, 1958
from
William McKinley Osceola,
Patriarch of the
Miccosukee Seminole Nation disowning his renegade son,
Mike Osceola
To Whom It May Concern:
It is with profound regret that I publicly announce
that the Indian who calls himself Mike Osceola, who was once
my son, is a traitor to his people and a disgrace to us.
He has no further right to use the name OSCEOLA as he is
no longer a member of our family, or the Miccosukee Seminole
Natio n.
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Envoys of my Miccosukeee Nation, who are going to
Washington on November 17, in the event Mike Osceola appears
there to make trouble as he has in the past. I want the world
to know that his father, his family and his Tribe consider him
a ren agade and disown him.
Witnessed By:
Howard Osceola
John Osceola
Bill McKinley Osceola
Homer M. Osceola
(by his signature)
William McKinley Osceola