John Douglas Bemo

John Douglas Bemo (1824?–1890) was a Seminole Presbyterian and Baptist missionary. He was the son of a chief and nephew of Osceola. In 1834 he was kidnapped and pressed into service as a sailor for the next eight years. In 1842 he met the pastor of the Mariner's Church in Philadelphia who arranged for his education and return to the Seminole in 1843.

External links

• Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Bemo, John

Further reading

• J. Y. Bryce, ed., "About Some of Our First Schools in Choctaw Nation," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 6 (September 1928).
• Foreman, Grant (1934). The Five civilized tribes. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0923-8.
• Jack M. Schultz, The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).
• Michael Welsh, "The Missionary Spirit: Protestantism Among the Oklahoma Seminoles, 1942-1885," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 61 (Spring 1983).
• Patricia R. Wickman, Osceola's Legacy (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991).
• McReynolds, Edwin (1957). The Seminoles. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-1255-7.
• Schultz, Jack (1999). The Seminole Baptist churches of Oklahoma: maintaining a traditional community. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3117-9.
• Wright, James (1986). Creeks & Seminoles: the destruction and regeneration of the Muscogulge people. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-9728-9.
• Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United Statesof America, Volumes 10-16. Published for the Board. 1850.
• The Friend, Volume 75. The Friend. 1902.