Write a 1000-1200 word 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.
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.
Essays must be double spaced, proofread, grammar-checked, carefully written, and amply cited. Submit the document as a .doc or .docx. Please use any materials from this class that you find helpful, but you must use and cite the readings specifically on Egmont Key. You may not use sources that were not assigned in this class and you may not use AI to generate information, help organize it, etc. This is not a research paper.. When you use specific information or quotations from the readings, please cite the reading with parenthetical citations (author’s last name, short title if there is more than one reading by the author, page). For example: (Cattelino, 124) or Frank, “Creating a Seminole Enemy,” 23. Do not need to cite lectures unless you are using direct quotations and I would avoid doing this if possible. You do not need to include a works cited page.
I attached the reading document at the bottom and here some other links we were given.
https://themarjorie.org/2022/10/03/on-egmont-words-from-tribal-members/
https://themarjorie.org/2022/10/03/safeguarding-a-touchstone/
https://themarjorie.org/2022/10/03/erosion-and-erasure-on-egmont-key/