오세올라

소개

오세올라(1804 – 1838년 1월 30일)는 플로리다의 영향력 있는 인디언 수장 중의 한 명이었다. 오세올라는 미국이 강제 이주를 시도하자 제2차 세미놀 전쟁 때 소수의 세미놀 전사를 이끌고 그들의 땅에서 저항 운동을 펼친 인디언 지도자였다. 그는 세미놀의 최고 지도자 미카노피에 큰 영향을 끼쳤다.

Osceola, named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfather was a Scotsman, James McQueen. He was reared by his mother in the Creek (Muscogee) tradition. When he was a child, they migrated to Florida with other Red Stick refugees, led by a relative, Peter McQueen, after their group's defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars. There they became part of what was known as the Seminole people.