High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ar-pi-uck-i, also known as Sam Jones, (born ca. 1760, Georgia, died ca. 1860, Florida) was a powerful spiritual alektca (medicine chief) and war chief of the Miccosukee, a Seminole-Muscogee Creek tribe of the Southeast United States. Ar-pi-uck-i successfully defied the U.S. government and refused to remove to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi and his influential leadership in the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) resulted in the permanent Native American presence in Florida.