d to make Osceola sign a treaty that would move the Seminole to Oklahoma, with the other southeastern tribes, but Osceola threw the pen into the paper and spilled the ink. The pen ripped a hole in the treaty and the ink left black all over it. Osceola was put in federal prison.Billy Bowlegs, the other chief, dragged the war on as long as he and his people could. ThenIn 1842 the United States backed out of the war because of the cost. It had cost the United States two thousand soldiers and sixty million dollars. They ended up moving three thousand Seminole by force to the reservations in Oklahoma. That still left over half the tribe in Florida where their descendants still live today. It cost the Americans twenty thousand dollars for every Seminole the country successfully moved to Oklahoma. For every two American soldiers killed the United States moved three Seminole.The Seminole were the last tribe moved from the southeast region of the United States ontoreservations. On January sixteenth 1907 Oklahoma officially entered the Union. Most of the southeast tribes were herded into the state and with a few white settlers they wrote a constitution.Drawing OneDear Journal, January 29, 1838It has been many moons since Andrew Jacksons treachery. I am probably watching one of my last moons in this federal prison. These guards are indignant and abusive in this retched hellhole. I have heard rumors that my people are still fighting the war in my honor. Let it continue for many more moons. Someday I will get out of this place and see my people living in peace once again. I am still young and I can feel the sun setting on my life already. The few moons I have left will be spent in this house of hell. The guards are telling us it is time to lay our heads and rest for this moon. If this is my last moon may my spirit always be with my people.Letter to Osc...
