Osceola

Osceola, also known as Billy Powell (1804 – January 30, 1838), becomes an influential leader and war chief of the Seminole in Florida.

Of mixed parentage: Creek, Scots-Irish, and English, he is raised by his mixed-race mother in the Creek tribe.

They migrate to Florida when he is a child, with other Red Stick refugees after their defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars.

As a man in the 1830s, Osceola leads a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War, when the United States tries to remove the Seminoles from their lands.

He becomes an adviser to Micanopy, the principal chief of the Seminole from 1825-1849.

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