1933 Indian Gum Billy Bowlegs #44 👑 Seminole Chief
Billy Bowlegs was an influential Seminole Chief, an activist against forced Native American relocation.
Born in 1810 in north-central Florida, Bowlegs rose to prominence as an activist against the Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, which was forcing the relocation of Native Americans including the Seminole from their native lands to territories west. Once the U.S. government ordered the relocation, Bowlegs refused to comply. “He refused to go over the Trail of Tears.”