Seminole Maroons

The Seminole Negro Indian Scouts served from 1873 to 1914, when the unit disbanded.

Last mount of the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, Fort Clark, Texas, 1914.
Courtesy of The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

Seminole Maroon William "Dub" Warrior wearing the uniform of the 4th Memorial Cavalry, which was fashioned after the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, Fort Clark, Texas, 1991.
Courtesy of The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

"We stayed on at Fort Clark, Texas, with the promise from the U.S. government that we would be given a home for the rest of our lives, but that treaty was broken in 1914."

— Charles Emily Wilson, Seminole Maroon elder and community historian, Brackettville, Texas, 1992

Members of the Sampson and Mary July family posing outside their house in Las Moras Village, a Seminole Maroon community adjacent to Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, about 1905.
Courtesy of The University of Texas Institute for Texan Cultures at San Antonio

" . . . So in 1914 we left Fort Clark and went into Brackettville and started a new life."

— Charles Emily Wilson, Seminole Maroon elder and community historian, Brackettville, Texas, 1992

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Seminole Maroons at Juneteenth (June 19th) festival, Brackettville, Texas, 1990.
Photograph by W. Scott Braucher

"June 19th commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas, and we celebrate it every year in solidarity with our fellow black Americans, but it is not a part of Seminole history since we were never slaves in Texas."