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Both Miccosukee Spokesman Buffalo Tiger and the Tribe’s persistent attorney, Morton Silver, continually expressed dissatisfaction with the federal government's wavering position on recognition of the Miccosukee Tribe.

Robert D. Mitchell, a representative of the social advocacy group, the Seminole Indian Association of Florida, explained that the Seminoles on the Big Cypress Reservation were unhappy about the proposed expenditure of tribal trust funds for…

This statement followed Miccosukee medicine man Ingraham Billie’s opposition to the creation of a tribal constitution and designated reservation. The Miccosukee spokesman Buffalo Tiger and the off-reservation Indians who wished to continue…

During Governor LeRoy Collins’ 1957 trip to the Everglades, he encouraged the Miccosukee Trail Indians and the Seminole Reservation Indians to form one political unit. While the Seminole Tribe made an offer to include the off-reservation Indians in…

This 1953 newspaper article from The Miami News focuses on how two Florida Indian factions debated the best way to negotiate with the United States about maintaining sovereign land rights. The author reported that the off-reservation Miccosukee…

This map was created as part of an official report deciding whether to end federal supervision of the land held in trust for the Florida Indians by the United States. It clearly shows the placement of the three Seminole reservations, as well as the…

During the height of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the CCC employed Native workers to improve reservations and surrounding lands through public works projects listed on the Achievement Record. Tribal members were more accepting of economic…

Some Florida Indians expressed concern about state game wardens impeding their right to hunt and fish on what they perceived to be their traditional homelands. Such restrictions were in conflict with the Indians’ traditional uses of land and…

Beede, who was commissioned by the federal government to investigate the condition of the Florida Indians, explains his difficulties in interacting with the widely spread indigenous camps in Florida. He notes that the Florida Indians seem well…