The Seminole

The Seminole experience at Egmont Key is a distinctively Seminole experience, but at the same time it resonates, or hits home, with many non-Seminoles. It also has different meanings for different Seminoles. Please read the documents and select one and only one of the most meaningful ways that the Seminoles connect to Egmont Key and then explain how this meaning connects (or contrasts) with your own personal experience with the past. Remember: the Seminole consider all of Florida to be their homelands, and Seminoles were captured and killed throughout the peninsula during the long Seminole War. So, please explore what makes Egmont Key especially important to the Seminoles.  In other words, what makes it as important if not more important than many other places on the Seminole homelands.  

The Question

Write an essay that explains why you think many Seminoles consider Egmont Key as important if not more important than many other places on the Seminole homelands and also explains how this issue resonates with you. In other words, how does the Seminole connection to Egmont Key resonate with or contrast with yourself, your personal experiences, etc. Most of the essay should be about the Seminoles and their history, but please use your own connection to frame it (introduction and conclusion) and, if you like, occasionally throughout the essay.