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He led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands.

He exercised a great deal of influence on Micanopy, the highest-ranking chief of the Seminoles.

Osc-eola was named Billy Powell at birth in 1804 in the village of Tallassee, Alabama around current Macon County.

The people in the town of Tallassee, where Billy Powell, (later named Osc-eola) was born, were mixed-blood Native American/English/Irish/Scottish, and some were black.

Billy was all of these.

His mother Polly Coppinger was daughter of Ann McQueen, who was part Muscogee and part Scottish.

Many sources, including the Seminole, state that his father was an English trader William Powell.

Seminole, Creek asi-yahola

His great-grandfather was James McQueen, who was Scottish and the first white man to trade with the Creeks in Alabama in 1714.

He stayed in the area as a trader and became closely involved with the Creek.

James McQueen's daughter Ann married Jose Coppinger.

Their daughter Polly was the mother of Osc-eola.

Osc-eola claimed to be a full-blood Muscogee.

In 1814 Osc-eola and his mother moved from Alabama to Florida together with other Creeks.

In adulthood he received his name;

Osc-eola is an anglicised form of the Creek asi-yahola the combination of asi, the ceremonial black drink made from the yaupon holly, and yahola, meaning shout or shouter.

Seminole chiefs signed the Treaty

Five of the most important of the Seminole chiefs, including Micanopy of the Alachua Seminoles, did not agree to the move.

In retaliation, Native American agent Wiley Thompson declared that those chiefs were removed from their positions.

As relations with the Seminoles deteriorated, Thompson forbade the sale of guns and ammunition to the Seminoles.

Osc-eola, a young warrior beginning to rise to prominence, was particularly upset by the ban, as he felt it equated Seminoles with slaves.

He had two wives and at least five children.

One of his wives was a black woman, and he fiercely opposed the enslavement of free peoples.

Wiley Thompson

Later, though, when he quarreled with Thompson, Thompson had him locked up at Fort King for a night.

The next day, to get released, Osceola agreed to abide by the Treaty of Payne's Landing and to bring his followers in.

On December 28, 1835 Osceola and his followers ambushed and killed Wiley Thompson and six others outside of Fort King.

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