A few hundred Seminole hunters and scouts settled within what is today Big Cypress National Preserve , to escape the forced emigration to the west .
After the end of the Seminole Wars in 1842 , the Seminoles faced relocation to Indian territory near Oklahoma .
A few hundred Seminoles hunters and scouts settled within what is today Big Cypress National Preserve , to escape the forced emigration to the west .
After the end of the Seminole Wars in 1842 , the Seminoles faced relocation to Indian territory near Oklahoma .