A Seminole History Discussion

A Seminole History Discussion

Presented in Partnership with The Boca Grande Historical Society

The Johann Fust Library Foundation and the Boca Grande Historical Society are honored to present a History Byte event focused on our neighbors, the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

– Learn about the evolution of the Seminoles, including where they came from and how they found themselves on the Florida frontier.

– Hear about their historic struggles and the Seminole War(s).

– Discover 20th-century and contemporary Seminole culture. See where the Seminoles are now. 

Panelists

Candice Shy Hooper is a historian and the author of Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives and Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail. She is currently working on her third Civil War history, a biography of Major Robert Anderson. It was while researching Anderson’s role in the Seminole Wars that she met the other scholars on the panel.

Mary Lou and John Missall are award-winning historians and authors whose primary work focuses on the Seminole Indian Wars. These were the longest, costliest, and among the deadliest of all the nation’s wars against Native Americans and spanned a period of more than forty years. Their long list of historical nonfiction includes The Seminole Struggle: A History of America’s Longest Indian War, and their latest novel is What We Have Endured, a story of the Seminole Wars co-authored with Tribal Chief Justice Willie Johns.

Dr. Annette Snapp earned an M.A. in applied anthropology with a concentration in public archaeology from the University of South Florida as well as a Master of Studies and Ph.D. in ethnology and museum ethnography from the University of Oxford. She has served as a professional archaeologist for over twenty years in Florida and the southeastern United States. In 2009 and 2011, she co-directed two Florida Gulf Coast Univerity archaeological field schools located at the Seminole’s Big Cypress Reservation, teaching the Seminole Tribe’s history and current culture. From 2013 to 2016, she served as the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum’s Operations Manager.

This event is now full. To be added to the waitlist, please call the foundation office at (941) 964-0211 or email info@JFLFBG.org.