Ojibway Indians of Florida

How, you may be asking, did the ojibway indians of florida get there? After the Ojibway defeated the Iroquois League in the first part of the devastating Beaver Wars (1667), they were driven by prophesy to invade towards the south, into what are now the States of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The whites refer to these southern Ojibways as Shawnee. However, they were not a distinct tribe but were Ojibways who were in the south to defend theirs, and their fellow Indian tribes homelands, against the invading whites. A little after the War of 1812 ended, the whites pursued the fleeing Ojibways, their black allies and Indian allies, down into Florida. After the first Seminole War ended the whites granted the Seminole a large Florida Reservation but a few years later stabbed them in the back, which led to the second Seminole War. Around 1819 the first Ojibways, their black allies and Indian allies, had constructed large boats to flee to the Bahamas (Andros Island) to escape from the whites. Below is a list of the Chippewa's who presently live in Florida.

Indian Creek Band, Chickamauga Creek & Cherokee

Tuscola United Cherokee Tribe of Florida

Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe

Big Cypress Reservation

Brighton Reservation

Hollywood Reservation

Miccosukee Reservation

Seminole Trust Lands