Chief Jumper

ID: 5913 ~ Source: Jon D. May, “Jumper, John,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. 

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=JU002. ~ Creator: 1516, Frank H. Reed Collection, OHS
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A sepia toned posed photograph of a middle aged man in a black suit against a white backdrop, looking into the camera.

Chief Jumper, one of the leaders of the Seminole people died by the “forced passage through the Crescent City into Fort Pike as a prisoner of war.” He died of “what was likely a respiratory illness,” caused by Fort Pikes’ “bleak and damp fortress situated on a narrow split of land at the mouth of Lake Borgne.” Because of Jumper’s leadership within the Seminole community, the Seminoles “ceremoniously buried” Jumper “with his rifle, pipe and tobacco” within the confines of Fort Pike itself. [3]

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By Kalie A. Rhodes & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor
In 1819, President James Monroe commissioned Fort Pike’s construction alongside six other forts on the Louisiana coast. [2] Originally known as Fort Petites Coquilles, Monroe commissioned the fort…