A black Seminole,was born in Nacimiento de Los Negros,the settlement established in northern Mexico following the emigration of Native Americans and black Seminoles from the Indian Territory in 1849.
By 1870,the U.S.Army desperate for translators and scouts familiar with the border country,employed the black Seminoles leading to their return to the United States.Most of them,including the July family,settled in or near Eagle Pass,Texas in 1871.There Johanna learned to tame horses and herd the family's goats and cattle.With the death of her daddy,she worked the stock and continued to tame wild horses for the U.S. Army and area ranchers.
She developed her own method of taming horses.She would lead a horse into the Rio Grande,swim up,grab the mane, and gently ease astride.As the horse tired from swimming, he lost the strength to buck.
Johanna is recalled as a tall,barefoot girl,who wore bright homespun dresses.She wore her hair in thick braids and wore long gold earrings and necklaces.When she married a man named Lesley,the couple moved
to another black Seminoles boarder community along the Rio Grande at
Fort Clark,Texas. Her new life,however,did not go smoothly. Not being used to household chores she burned beans and improperly cut fabric. her husband responded to her difficulties with violence and Johanna eventually left,riding her pony to Fort Duncan,Texas.
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