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Members of the Miccosukee Tribe prepare to deliver buckskin petitions to French, Spanish, and British embassies in the U.S. The Tribe hoped to rely on their acknowledgment of past treaties made with Florida Indians to support their claims to the…

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 document, written on a cured buckskin, embodied the desire of the Miccosukee speaking Indians living outside the three federal reservations to have a direct political connection with the United States government. They wanted a separate…

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 mid to late-1700s, Lower and Upper Creek Indians––as well as small groups of other diverse Indian communities, including those who spoke Miccosukee––gradually migrated south from Georgia and Alabama into the relatively unpopulated regions…

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…

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…

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.

In this letter, Commissioner Glenn Emmons rebuked the Miccosukee Council's letter that made a demand for land from the U.S. government and also presumed to advise federal officials on their obligations. He rebutted the suggestion that the Miccosukee…