St. Johns County is hosting tribal leaders and state officials for a historic flag-raising ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the Treaty of Moultrie Creek signing. Leaders from all four Native American Nations affected by this treaty will be together at this site for the first time in two centuries. Leaders of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida will offer remarks and raise their respective nations' flags over Treaty Park.
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St. Johns County is hosting tribal leaders and state officials for a historic flag-raising ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the Treaty of Moultrie Creek signing. Leaders from all four Native American Nations affected by this treaty will be together at this site for the first time in two centuries. Leaders of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida will offer remarks and raise their respective nations’ flags over Treaty Park.
Scheduled speakers include Andrew K. Frank, Ph.D., Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Center, Florida State University; Alissa Lotane, Florida Division of Historical Resources and Florida’s State Historic Preservation Officer, Chairman Talbert Cypress Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida; Principal Chief David Hill, Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Principal Chief Lewis Johnson, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Chairman Marcellus Osceola, Seminole Tribe of Florida; Christian Whitehurst, Chairman, St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners; Roy Alaimo, District 3, St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners.
Signed in 1823, the Treaty of Moultrie Creek resulted in the cessation of large swaths of tribal lands in Florida and the establishment of the State’s first reservation for the Seminole Indians.
Wayne Larson, St. Johns County Public Affairs Director, 904-426-2128, wlarson@sjcfl.us
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