Ee-mat-la

[[File:Ee-mat-la.jpg|thumb|Ee-mat-la, painting by George Catlin (1838)|184x184px]]

'''Ee-mat-la''', also known as '''King Phillip''', (9 October 1739 – 8 October 1839) was a Seminole chief during the Second Seminole War.

He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation,<ref>{{cite book |author=Knetsch |first=Joe |author-link=Joe Knetsch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rbeZMoBrs8C&pg=PA108 |title=Florida's Seminole Wars, 1817–1858 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7385-2424-5 |pages=104–105}}</ref> and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839.<ref>Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr. ''The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography'', New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.</ref>

He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/catlinclassroom/searchdocs/catlinletter57.html |title="LETTER—No. 57". ''Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians'', George Catlin, (First published in London in 1844) |access-date=2009-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065115/http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/catlinclassroom/searchdocs/catlinletter57.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.nativetech.org/seminole/longshirt/references.php "The Seminole Longshirt The Seminole Longshirt" ''19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing'', M. E. (Pete) Thompson and Rick Obermeyer, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art]</ref>

His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat). {{clear}}

== See also ==

* John Caesar (Seminole)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172218/http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fnby_ayerart&CISOPTR=955&CISOBOX=1&REC=17 ''Ee-mat-la'', Catlin sketch, Ayer Art Digital Collection (Newberry Library)] *[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=243754&imageID=466087&word=10835&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=13&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=Name&sLevel=&sLabel=Catlin%2C%20George&total=274&num=60&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=80 ''Seminolee. 154-156. Ee-mat-la (King Phillip), Ye-how-lo-gee (the Cloud), Co-ee-ha-jo (- - -), three Seminolee warriors w... (1850)'', NYPL digital library] *[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4192 ee-mat-la, George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum] *[http://www.johnhorse.com/images/ptour/11.htm Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090414083712/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/geo-flor/32.htm ''FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins'', National Register of Historic Places] *[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4198 Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL]

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