“LOST” INDIAN TRIBE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1940, Page 6

“LOST” INDIAN TRIBE

LIVING IN PRIMITIVE SAVAGERY IN EVERGLADES. SOME RECENT DISCOVERIES. Lost for over 100 years, descendants of some forgotten Indian tribe still live in primitive savagery in the Everglades, a big swampy tract in the south of Florida. Dr. Laennne is excavating ancient Timucuan mounds, near St. Augustine. Florida, and ho has been told, he said, by Seminole Indian chiefs of the remnants of this tribo. It was after seeing skeletons, pottery, and primitive weapons of the fierce Timucuan Indians that Chief Josie Jumper, who is helping Dr. Laomme, said, he thought the mysterious savages might be Timucuans. Only the old men among the Scnnnoles have ever seen thorn at close quarters. Cue centenarian Sam Hull, says they used to raid the camps of Seminole alligator hunters who ventured too close to dwellings. _ . One of the family of a medicine man once surprised the mystery imdeis when he returned to camp unex--1 Tie received a deep wound in his thigh—from a flint-tipped spear. The tribe wears no clothes, according to Josie Jumper, not oven moc-

If they arc Timucuans they can only be descendants of survivors of the white man's advance and of the slave-trading round-up in the early 1800's. Few of the once mighty Indian nation escaped. Chief Josie is the great-grandson of Chief Johnny Jumper, who was imprisoned by Federal troops when he went to Fort Marion under a flag of truce 100 years ago. This was one of the incidents that led the Seminoles to retreat into the swamps and refuse to sign a peace treaty with ths white men.