Just off the top of my head, the Seminoles who stayed in FL and never came to IT (now Oklahoma) didn't mix with our OK Seminoles.
Don't have time to research it and all my books are in storage. I'm from another of the Five Civilized Tribes - Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole - who settled in IT after the Trail of Tears in 1838.
beginning to get on my nerves.
Today, there are two black bands and 2,500 registered black members in the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
In Florida, the tribe has ignored its black brothers from Oklahoma until recently.
In Florida, the tribe has ignored its black brothers from Oklahoma until recently. Now, for $24.99, the tribe's Web site will help trace Black Seminole roots. At the same time, historians are examining the Second Seminole War more closely. Although not as known as the Indian campaigns out West, the Second Seminole War has always been considered the bloodiest and most brutal of all U.S.-Indian wars. Now, some historians are also calling the seven-year struggle the largest slave rebellion in United States history. "You cannot understand the history of Florida without understanding Black Seminole and Red Seminole history. They are the core," said historian William Loren Katz, author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage.
http://history.jupiter.fl.us/HistoryWeb/Seminoles.cfm