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Here's a bit about my namesake, Coacooche:

The historical Wild Cat (c. 1810 – 1857) , or Coacoochee, was a leading Seminole chieftain. At the start of the Second Seminole War, the nineteen-year-old Wild Cat gained prominence leading a band of Seminoles and former Georgian slaves (the Black Seminoles) until his father's capture and imprisonment in Fort Marion in 1837.

In 1837 he was arrested under a flag of truce and imprisoned at Fort Marion, from which he escaped with eighteen other Seminoles after reportedly fasting for six days before they were able to slide through the bars of their jail cells.

With the imprisonment of Osceola, Wild Cat emerged as the leading commander of the Second Seminole war until his forced surrender in 1841. "I was in hopes I would be killed in battle, but a bullet never reached me," he said.

He was transported to Fort Gibson in Oklahoma's Indian Territory along with his remaining two hundred followers, where conditions were so bad that in 1849 he escaped the reservation with about one hundred followers, consisting of Seminoles and former slaves, and escaped to Texas. Joined by about one thousand Kickapoos, Wild Cat's band eventually were able to establish a new community in Mexico where the government awarded the tribe an area of land in recognition for their service against Apache and Comanche raiders. He died of smallpox in Alto, Mexico in 1857.

[Biography condensed from Wikipedia article]