Tustenuggee
Tustenuggee (Script error: No such module "Lang". in Muscogee) was a Muscogee title for the war leader of a tribal town.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The tustenuggee was appointed by the micco (civil chief), and was responsible for leading the towns' warriors, advising the civil chief on matters relating to war, maintaining public order, and organizing stickball games with other towns.[1] Most Seminole leaders from the period of the Seminole Wars are known by their war titles, which were always Muscogee in form, no matter what their primary language was.[2] Tustenuggee has also become the surname of some descendants of Black Seminoles, probably from the association of an ancestor with a Seminole holding the title of tustenuggee.[3]
Most of the following tustenuggees are known from the first half of the 19th century in Florida, primarily from the Second Seminole War:
- Tustennuggee Emathla, better known as Jim Boy or High-Head Jim of Autsi near the Tallapoosa River
- Chitto Tustenuggee, known as "Snake Warrior" to whites. He was sent by Abiaka to negotiate with the U.S. Army in 1839, and reached an (ultimately unsuccessful) agreement with General Alexander Macomb to end the Second Seminole War with the Seminoles staying in southern Florida.[4]
- Coosa Tustenuggee, a leader of the Mikasukis in northern Florida until he agreed to go West in 1840.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- Halleck Tustenuggee, he fought against the U.S. Army until captured in 1842. He later fought on the Union side in the Civil War.
- Halpatter Tustenuggee, known as "Alligator" to whites. He was a leader in the Battle of Lake Okeechobee and in raids along the lower (northern) St. Johns River in 1842.
- Oscen Tustenuggee, a leader in the Third Seminole War.[5]
- Souanaffee Tustenukke, a Black Seminole known as "Abraham" to whites.
- Thlocklo Tustenuggee, known as "Tiger Tail" to whites. His full title may indicate a high rank. Several towns could join together in a war and choose a tustenuggee thlacko as overall leader.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- Tustanagee Hopae, known as Little Prince to whites. He was a leader in the Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederacy.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.O'Brien, Sharon (1989). American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-8061-2199-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Neill, Wilfred T. (June 1955). "The Identity of Florida's "Spanish Indians"". The Florida Anthropologist. 8 (2): 47 – via University of Florida Digital Collection.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Porter, Kenneth Wiggins (1947). "Farewell to John Horse: An Episode of Seminole Negro Folk History". Phylon. 8 (3): 265–273. doi:10.2307/272343. ISSN 0885-6818.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.West, Patsy (2022-05-05). "Abiaka, or Sam Jones, in Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis through the Third Seminole War". Florida Historical Quarterly. 94 (3): 394–395.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Covington, James W. (July 1966). "An Episode in the Third Seminole War". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 45 (1): 45–59. JSTOR 30145700.
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mahon, John K. (1985) [1967]. History of the Second Seminole War 1835-1842 (Revised (paperback) ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. ISBN 0-8130-1097-7.
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