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Bowlegs was born into a family of hereditary chiefs descended from Cowkeeper of the Oconee tribe of the Seminole in the village of Cuscowilla on the Alachua savannah (present-day Payne's Prairie, near Micanopy, Florida).
Article describes the life and personality of Billy Bowlegs, Seminole chief and warrior who fought against the encroachment of white settlers in the Seminole Wars. Carolyn Thomas Foreman explores the legacy of the man through accounts and documentation from the nineteenth century.
Billy Bowlegs III, aka Billy Fewell or Cofehapkee (1862–1965), a Seminole elder (also of African American descent) and tribal historian, in a c1895 portrait by Arthur P. Lewis,. Bowlegs was the grandson of Osceola and was a member of the Snake Clan.
This portrait of Seminole Indian chief Billy Bowlegs (also known as Holata Micco) shows the American fascination with portraying American Indians. Bowlegs was one of the last, most resistant Seminole War leaders, fighting in both the Second and Third Seminole Wars.
23 Ιαν 2008 · Holata Micco was a friend of Osceola, the principal Seminole commander during most of the war, and of Osceola’s closest comrades, Wildcat and Alligator, and the Black Seminole leaders Abraham and John Caballo Horse.
handsome man and a great leader that took the Micanopy Seminole thru some awful times. Then oil was found on his land in Oklahoma. At that point all promises of a peaceful existance west of the Mississippi were null and void.
Billy Bowlegs gained distinction as a captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War and his intersectionality with African slaves in America. One of the last Seminole leaders to resist, he eventually moved to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.
