{"id":52,"date":"2018-07-06T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T19:42:55","slug":"who-was-osceola","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/about-us\/chapter-history\/who-was-osceola\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was Osceola?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Osceola<\/b> (1804 \u2013 January 30, 1838), or Asi-Yaholo, was also known as <b>Billy Powell <\/b>during his childhood.&nbsp; He took the name Osceola as a young adult when he joined the Seminole.&nbsp; Historians believe he was of mixed heritage being born of a mixed-race Creek mother, and Scottish or English father.&nbsp; His mother raised him as a Creek by custom under the tribe&#8217;s matrilineal kinship system.&nbsp; When he was a child, he and his mother migrated to Florida with other Red Stick refugees after their defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars.&nbsp; He became an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida, leading members of his tribe in 1830&#8217;s Florida in a valiant attempt to resist the US Army\u2019s efforts to relocate them to a reservation west of the Mississippi River, after refusing to sign the treaty which would have ceded their Florida homeland. &nbsp;His ability and fiery spirit made him the symbol of resistance and a key leader in the Second Seminole War.&nbsp; He was captured in 1837 while under a &#8220;flag of truce&#8221; and died in 1838 while imprisoned at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_95\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osceola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola-46x54.jpg 46w, https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Osceola.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osceola (1804 \u2013 January 30, 1838), or Asi-Yaholo, was also known as Billy Powell during his childhood.&nbsp; He took the name Osceola as a young adult when he joined the Seminole.&nbsp; Historians believe he was of mixed heritage being born of a mixed-race Creek mother, and Scottish or English father.&nbsp; His mother raised him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gg_gallery_thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Janice Johnson","author_link":"https:\/\/fssdar.com\/Osceola\/author\/oscvischr\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Osceola (1804 \u2013 January 30, 1838), or Asi-Yaholo, was also known as Billy Powell during his childhood.&nbsp; 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