{"id":10490,"date":"2019-12-27T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveltourexplore.com\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2020-04-06T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T22:26:15","slug":"florida-everglades-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveltourexplore.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/27\/florida-everglades-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Everglades, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Everglades, USA<\/h3>\n
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The Florida Everglades were much more interesting than I thought they would be.<\/p>\n

Firstly, the Miccosukee Indian Tribe
\nWe wanted to visit the Miccosukee who live in the Florida Everglades because they were having their annual arts and craft festival on the last week of the year. Like a lot of First Nations casinos they let you park in their lot for free, which we took advantage of while we visited their festival.
\nThe tribe ended up in the everglades because during the Indian Wars of the 1800s, about 100, mostly Mikasuki-speaking Creeks, never surrendered and hid from the federal police in the Everglades, protected by the alligators. there are now over 600 that are direct descendants of those who escaped capture.
\nThe Miccosukee used to\u00a0 live in small groups in temporary \u201chammock style\u201d camps in the Everglades. The airboat ride took us to visit a couple of these islands.
\nThey stuck to themselves for about a hundred years, resisting assimilation. Then, after the Tamiami Trail highway was built in 1928, the Tribe began to accept the New World ways.
\nTo ensure that the federal government would formally recognize the Miccosukee Tribe, Buffalo Tiger, a leader of the Tribe, led a group to Cuba in 1959, where they asked Fidel Castro for, international recognition as a sovereign country within the United States. It was granted.
\nOn January 11, 1962, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior approved the Miccosukee Constitution and the Tribe was officially recognized as the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, legally establishing their tribal existence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

The Miccosukee Indian Tribe<\/h3>