Mr. Chairman. I desire to ask the chairman in charge of this committee a few questions with reference to determining the status of the Indians In Florida. I understood from the speech of the gentleman from Minnesota that these Florida Indians are refugees. Now. I have always understood. Mr. Chairman. that they are descendants of the Indians -who were originally found in Florida at the discovery of America. or of that portion thereof. and that when the Seminole Indians were transferred from Florida to the West these Indians or their ancestors were so devoted to their homes that they refused to leave and go to the mountains. where there was nothing but rocks and rills.
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