The First Seminole War was fought between the United States and the Seminole tribe of Florida from 1817 to 1818. The primary cause of the conflict was the Seminole tribe's resistance to American efforts to forcibly relocate them from their lands to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. The war ended in a stalemate, with neither side achieving a decisive victory. However, the U.S. Army did manage to capture and burn several Seminole villages, which forced many Seminole people to flee deeper into the Florida wilderness. The U.S. government also signed a treaty with a faction of the Seminole tribe that agreed to relocate to Indian Territory, although many Seminoles refused to leave their ancestral lands. The First Seminole War set the stage for future conflicts between the U.S. government and the Seminole tribe, including the Second Seminole War, which lasted from 1835 to 1842