Talk:Seminole
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- I've heard 3rd person reports that some Seminoles (especially those in Florida and amoung Black Seminoles) are unhappy with the use of Seminoles as a team mascot not because of its general degradation of Native Americans, but because many of the Seminole depictions are of Plains Indians, and not those of the Black Seminoles or Everglades. Anybody have anything on this? -65.122.209.136 01:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- It appears they have no problem with Florida State University over this, see [1]. Can you point to any other school calling themselves 'Seminoles' where there might be a problem? -- Donald Albury 02:20, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've heard just the opposite as well. The Florida tribe(s) are okay with the team using it, and the depictions are pretty accurate (the mascot, Osceola, is not portrayed as a Plains Indian). I have heard the Oklahoma tribe was not consulted for the discussions about the name, and are unhappy about that, not because of the portrayal.--Cúchullain t/c 19:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Could someone correct the number of Seminoles stated in the first paragraph as having been forced to move west of the Mississippi? The number currently stated is "3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Seminoles," and that's patently impossible. Misterdoe 15:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
