History Bytes – A Seminole History Discussion

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
11:00 am

Registration for this event is now closed.

photo of three Seminole girls canoeing through the Everglades — *Three Seminole Girls in a Canoe the Everglades, FL 1907* Photo by Julian Dimock courtesy of Research Library, American Museum of Natural History

Attend our signature program every Wednesday in February highlighting local stories on the history of island life.

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.

Location: Loggia of the Johann Fust Library

Cost: Open to the public at no charge.

Dedicated to: Robert Edic, former Archivist of BGHS

Topic:

Learn about the evolution of the Seminoles: 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.

The Panelists

Candice Shy Hooper

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.

John and Mary Lou Missall

Mary Lou and John Missall

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 Snap

Dr. Annette Snapp

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 University 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.