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losses involved in relocating to the reservation, and provide rations for a year, until the
Seminoles could plant and harvest new crops. The government was also supposed to pay the tribe US$ 5,000 a year for twenty years, and provide an interpreter, a school and a blacksmith for the same twenty years. No white person was allowed to settle, farm, or hunt the reservation land as well. In turn, the Seminoles had to allow roads to be built across the reservation and had to apprehend any
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In the first nine years, the money promised was slow in arriving and promised sums were not met. Murders and conflicts between
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