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I'm a Lakota Tribal Ranger. The Elders Warned Us About the Silent Ones. | Creepypasta
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I'm a Lakota Tribal Ranger on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and when someone goes missing in the Badlands, the search teams tell families it was the terrain. But the elders know different — something ancient walks the north ridge, something that's been here long before our people arrived, and it decides who comes back.
This story follows a missing bow hunter, an underground stone chamber that shouldn't exist, and the Silent Ones — beings that stand at the edge of perception, watching from places where even the wind holds its breath. What I discovered beneath those sacred hills changed everything I thought I knew about this land.
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Brian Floyd is talking shit about my missing person posts. I wish everyone would block that low life pos scum liberal trash. And I wish DEATH on him. If I lived in the same town as him I would euthani... View MoreBrian Floyd is talking shit about my missing person posts. I wish everyone would block that low life pos scum liberal trash. And I wish DEATH on him. If I lived in the same town as him I would euthanize him myself.
Samantha Ross-Bird - MISSING
MISSING SINCE : March 3, 2026 @12pm
**Missing From Prince Albert, Saskatchewan**... View MoreSamantha Ross-Bird - MISSING
MISSING SINCE : March 3, 2026 @12pm
**Missing From Prince Albert, Saskatchewan**
Missing at age: 10
Gender: Female
Race: Indigenous
Eyes: Brown
Hair. Brown/shoulder length
Height: 4'08'
Weight: 137 pounds
Last seen wearing: black sweater, black pants, white and black shoes & a white crossbody bag
Last seen in the 800 Block of Central Avenue
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Seminole Wars of Florida
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole tribe and the United States Army. These wars consisted of three differ... View MoreSeminole Wars of Florida
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole tribe and the United States Army. These wars consisted of three different wars including the First Seminole War from 1816 to 1819, the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842, and the Third Seminole War from 1855 to 1858). Together, the Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive, both in human and monetary terms, of all the Indian Wars in United States history.
Much of the fighting during the Seminole Wars were fought in the swamps of Florida.
After the American Revolution Spain regained control of Florida from Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris. When the British evacuated Florida, Spanish colonists and American settlers came into the state in great numbers. Many of these new residents were lured by Spanish land grants. Even the Seminole Indians were encouraged to set up farms because they provided a buffer between Spanish Florida and the United States.
First Seminole War (1816-1819) – This conflict began with the massacre of about 50 Americans near an army post in Georgia and climaxed to a series of raids against American settlements by the Seminole based in Spanish Florida. Brigadier General Edmund P. Gaines, the Indian commissioner of the area, attempted countermeasures but soon found himself and his force of 600 Regulars confined to Fort Scott, Alabama by the Seminole. War Department instructions to Gaines had permitted the pursuit of Indians into Florida but, had forbidden interference if the Indians took refuge in Spanish posts.
Major General Andrew Jackson, who was ordered to take over the operation, chose to interpret Gaines’ instructions as sanctioning a full-scale invasion of the Spanish colony. He organized a force of about 7,500 volunteers, militia, subsidized Creek Indians, and Regulars, and invaded Florida with part of this force in the spring of 1818.
Jackson destroyed Seminole camps, captured Pensacola, the capital of Spanish Florida, as well as other Spanish strongholds. He also executed two British subjects, Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister, who were accused of inciting and arming the Indians. The governments of Great Britain and Spain both expressed outrage over the “invasion”. However, Spain was unable to defend or control the territory, as several local uprisings and rebellions made clear. It also jeopardized negotiations with Spain pertinent to the session of Florida to the United States in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. Eventually the British were mollified and a compromise agreement was reached with the Spanish under which American forces were withdrawn from Florida without repudiating the politically popular Jackson. The transfer of Florida to the United States took place in 1821.
The Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823 required the Seminole to leave northern Florida and they were confined to a large reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula. The U.S. government enforced the treaty by building a series of forts and trading posts in the territory, mainly along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. However, as for the “Seminole problem”, it was temporarily allayed but by no means solved.
Dade Massacre, Florida
Second Seminole War (1835–1842) – More treaties were made with the Seminole when the United States government wanted the tribe to leave Florida altogether and move to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) per the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In the Treaties of Payne’s Landing in 1832 and Fort Gibson in 1833, the Seminole had agreed to give up their lands, but they refused to move out. As the government attempted to force the Seminoles to leave, fighting began with the Dade Massacre in December 1835, and raids, skirmishes, and a handful of larger battles were fought throughout the Florida peninsula over the next few years.
Following the arrest and release of Seminole Chief Osceola, in 1835 Seminole depredations rapidly increased. These culminated on December 28th in the massacre of Captain Francis L. Dade’s detachment of 330 Regulars en route from Fort Brooke in Tampa to Fort King in Ocala – a disastrous loss for the small, regular force of 600 men in Florida. Brigadier General Duncan L. Clinch, commanding Fort King, took the offensive immediately with 200 men and on December 31, 1835, defeated the Indians on the Withlacoochee River.
Seminole Chief Osceola
The War Department, meanwhile, had ordered Brigadier General Winfield Scott, commander of the Eastern Department, to Florida to direct operations against the Seminole. Most of the hostilities had occurred in General Gaines’ Western Department, but the War Department expected impending troubles in Texas to keep Gaines occupied. Nevertheless, Gaines had quickly raised about 1,000 men in New Orleans, Louisiana and, acting on his own authority, embarked for Florida in February 1836. Even after learning of Scott’s appointment, Gaines seized supplies collected by Scott at Fort Drane and pressed forward until heavily attacked by Seminole. He succeeded in extricating his force only with help from Scott’s troops. Shortly thereafter Gaines returned to New Orleans.
Completion of preparations for Scott’s proposed three-pronged offensive converging on the Withlacoochee River was delayed by Gaines’ use of Scott’s supplies, expiration of volunteer enlistments, and temporary diversion of troops to deal with the Creeks who were then on the warpath in Georgia and Alabama. Before the campaign could get underway, Scott was recalled to Washington to face charges of dilatoriness and of casting slurs on the fighting qualities of volunteers. Beginning in December 1836, Major General Thomas S. Jesup carried out a series of increasingly desperate measures to win the war.
On October 21, 1837, Osceola and 81 of his followers were captured by General Joseph Hernández on the orders of General Thomas Jesup, under a white flag of truce, when they went for peace talks to Fort Peyton near St. Augustine. Osceola was initially imprisoned at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, before being transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina. Osceola’s capture by deceit caused a national uproar. General Jesup’s treacherous act and the administration were condemned by many congressional leaders and vilified by the international press. Jesup suffered a loss of reputation that lasted for the rest of his life; his betrayal of the truce flag has been described as “one of the most disgraceful acts in American military history.”
Colonel Zachary Taylor decisively defeated a sizeable Indian force near Lake Okeechobee in December 1837 and afterward, there were no more large forces were assembled on either side. With Osceola in prison, the United States was confident the war would end soon. But it did not. Although Osceola died in prison in 1838, other Seminole leaders kept the battle going for a few more years.
By the early 1840s, most of the Seminole population in Florida had been killed in battle, ravaged by starvation and disease, or relocated to Indian Territory.
Colonel William J. Worth finally conceived a plan which consisted of campaigning during the enervating summer seasons with the object of destroying the Indian’s crops. This plan was successful in driving a sufficient number of Seminole from their swampy retreats to permit official termination of the war on May 10, 1842. However, no peace treaty was ever signed.
During the long and difficult campaign, some 5,000 Regulars were employed with a loss of nearly 1,500 killed. Nearly 20,000 volunteers also participated in the war which cost some 20 million dollars and resulted in the removal of some 3,500 Seminole to the Indian Territory. However, several hundred Seminoles were allowed to remain in an unofficial reservation in southwest Florida.
Third Seminole War (1855–1858) -This war was again the result of Seminole responding to settlers and U.S. Army scouting parties encroaching on their lands, perhaps deliberately to provoke a violent response that would result in the removal of the last of the Seminole from Florida. After an army surveying crew found and destroyed a Seminole plantation west of the Everglades in December 1855, Chief Billy Bowlegs led a raid near Fort Myers, setting off a conflict which consisted mainly of raids and reprisals, with no large battles fought. American forces tried to destroy the Seminole’ food supply, and in 1858, most of the remaining Seminole, weary of war and facing starvation, agreed to be shipped to Oklahoma in exchange for promises of safe passage and cash payments to their chiefs.
An estimated 200 Seminole still refused to leave and retreated deep into the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp to live on land that was unwanted by white settlers. Since the war was officially over and the remaining Seminole carefully avoided contact with settlers, the government sent the militia home and reassigned most of the regular Army troops, leaving only small contingents in larger coastal forts such as Fort Brooke. Most of the smaller forts scattered across the Florida wilderness were decommissioned and soon stripped by settlers of any usable material.
In the 1940s, the Seminole who remained in Florida began to move to reservations and establish official tribal governments. There are several official Seminole Tribes in Florida today.
Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838), born as Billy Powell, became an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida. Of mixed parentage, Creek, Scots-Irish, Black, and English, he was raised as a Creek b... View MoreOsceola (1804 – January 30, 1838), born as Billy Powell, became an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida. Of mixed parentage, Creek, Scots-Irish, Black, and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system. They migrated to Florida when he was a child, with other Red Stick refugees, after their defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars.
In 1836, Osceola led a small group of warriors in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War, when the United States tried to remove the tribe from their lands in Florida. He became an adviser to Micanopy, the principal chief of the Seminole from 1825 to 1849. Osceola led the war resistance until he was captured in September 1837 by deception, under a flag of truce, when he went to a meeting spot near Fort Peyton for peace talks.[3] Because of his renown, Osceola attracted visitors as well as leading portrait painters. He died a few months later in prison at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina, of causes reported as an internal infection or malaria.
Early life
Osceola was named Billy Powell at birth in 1804 in the Creek village of Talisi. now known as Tallassee, Alabama, in current Elmore County. "The people in the town of Tallassee...were mixed-blood Native American/English/Irish/Scottish, and some were black. Billy was all of these. His mother was Polly Coppinger, a Creek woman, and his father was William Powell, a British trader with a Welsh surname. Molly was the daughter of Ann McQueen and Jose Coppinger. Because the Creek have a matrilineal kinship system, Polly and Ann's other children were all considered to be born into their mother's clan; they were reared as traditional Creek and gained their status from their mother's people. Ann McQueen was also mixed-race Creek; her father, James McQueen, was Scots-Irish. Ann was probably the sister or aunt of Peter McQueen, a prominent Creek leader and warrior. Like his mother, Billy was raised in the Creek tribe.
Like his father, Billy's maternal grandfather, James McQueen was a ship-jumping Scottish sailor and in 1716 became the first recorded white trader with the Creek tribe in Alabama. He stayed in the area as a fur trader and married into the Creek tribe and became closely involved with this people. He was buried in 1811 at the Indian cemetery in Franklin, Alabama, near a Methodist Missionary Church for the Creek.
In 1814, after the Red Stick Creek were defeated by United States forces, Polly took Osceola and moved with other Creek refugees from Alabama to Florida, where they joined the Seminole. In adulthood, as part of the Seminole, Powell was given his name Osceola (/ˌɒsiːˈoʊlə/ or /ˌoʊseɪˈoʊlə/). This is an anglicized form of the Creek Asi-yahola (pronounced [asːi jahoːla]); the combination of asi, the ceremonial black drink made from the yaupon holly, and yahola, meaning "shout" or "shouter".
In 1821, the United States acquired Florida from Spain. More European-American settlers started moving in, encroaching on the Seminole. After early military skirmishes and the 1823 Treaty of Moultrie Creek, by which the US seized the northern Seminole lands, Osceola and his family moved with the Seminole deeper into central and southern Florida.
As an adult, Osceola took two wives, as did some other Creek and Seminole leaders. With them, he had at least five children. One of his wives was an African American, and he fiercely opposed the enslavement of free people.
1830s resistance and war leader
Osceola stabbing the treaty with his dagger. Statue in Silver Springs, Florida
Through the 1820s and the turn of the decade, American settlers kept up pressure on the US government to remove the Seminole from Florida to make way for their desired agricultural development. In 1832, a few Seminole chiefs signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing, by which they agreed to give up their Florida lands in exchange for lands west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory. According to legend, Osceola stabbed the treaty with his knife, although there are no contemporary reports of this.
Five of the most important Seminole chiefs, including Micanopy of the Alachua Seminole, did not agree to removal. In retaliation, the US Indian agent, Wiley Thompson, declared that those chiefs were deposed from their positions. As US relations with the Seminole deteriorated, Thompson forbade the sale of guns and ammunition to them. Osceola, a young warrior rising to prominence, resented this ban. He felt it equated the Seminole with slaves, who were forbidden to carry arms.
Thompson considered Osceola to be a friend and gave him a rifle. Osceola had a habit of barging into Thompson's office and shouting complaints at him. On one occasion Osceola quarreled with Thompson who had the warrior locked up at Fort King for a two nights until he agreed to be more respectful. In order to secure his release, Osceola agreed to sign the Treaty of Payne's Landing and to bring his followers into the fort. After his humiliating imprisonment, Osceola secretly prepared vengeance against Thompson.
On December 28, 1835, Osceola, with the same rifle Thompson gave him, killed Wiley Thompson. Osceola and his followers shot six others outside Fort King, while another group of Seminole ambushed and killed a column of US Army, over 100 troops, marching from Fort Brooke to Fort King, in what Americans called the Dade Massacre. These nearly simultaneous attacks began the Second Seminole War.
Capture
In October 1837, on the orders of General Thomas Jesup, Osceola and 95 of his followers were captured, with white truce flags flying, when they went for peace talks near St. Augustine, Florida. He was initially imprisoned at Fort Marion before being transferred to Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island, outside Charleston, South Carolina. Osceola's capture by deceit caused a national uproar. General Jesup's treacherous act and the administration were condemned by many congressional leaders and vilified by international press. It tainted his reputation for the rest of his life and stands as "one of the most disgraceful acts in American military history.
That December, Osceola and other Seminole prisoners were moved to Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina. They were visited by townspeople.
George Catlin and other prominent painters met the war chief and persuaded him to allow his picture to be painted. Robert J. Curtis painted two oil portraits of Osceola where one remains in the Charleston Museum Osceola and Curtis developed a close friendship during the long conversational and painting times.These paintings have inspired numerous prints and engravings, which were widely distributed, and even cigar store figures.
Osceola, suffering from tonsillitis, developed an abscess and died of quinsy (though one source gives the cause of death as "malaria" without further elaboration) on January 30, 1838, three months after his capture. He was buried with military honors at Fort Moultrie.
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