SEMIROON is a word created by Phil Wilkes Fixico, a Seminole Maroon Descendant as described by Professor Kevin Mulroy. Professor Mulroy is the world's leading authority on Seminole Maroons. When asked by the Smithsonian Institution to write an essay on the African-Native American experience as it applies to the Seminoles and their Black tribal members, he chose the Bruner/Fixico family for which Phil or Pompey is a contemporary descendant. The essay appears in the Smithsonian Institution's book and exhibit entitled "indiVisible": African-Native American Lives in the Americas.

Since learning about his heritage he has connected with his family in: L.A., Texas, Mexico, Oklahoma and Missouri. He vowed to his living relatives, to speak for the ancestors 300 times and to take their story to the nation. Phil believes in the doctrine of "TRANSENDENCE" for African-Native Americans, that is, instead of trying to go where they might not be wanted that they should work on starting their own African-Native American tribes through self-cultural development. Semiroon is a synthesis of the words Seminole and Maroon. Pompey (his African-Native American name) created the: "Seminole Maroon Peace Belt" which is a tool of cultural enlightenment and one that he hopes will be used to encourage cultural paradigms and positive imperatives.