Indigenous People

For Florida’s Native American tribes, the watershed is sacred. A new National Academies report says the federal and state agencies guiding Everglades restoration can learn a lot from them.

Dr. Daniel Wildcat suggests the approach of Native peoples offers some viable alternatives to Western European methodologies.

Thom Parham, a 64-year-old history teacher, is devoted to finding remnants of the Seminole Wars, and has also found kindred spirits along the way.

This past year, the Florida Museum of Natural History completed three Notices of Inventory Completion and one Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items for the national NAGPRA program.

If passed, the Tigertail Historical Tree Island Repatriation Act would authorize the Army Corps of Engineers "to realign a portion of the levee located within the Tigertail Camp to give Miccosukee."

Under a bill filed Wednesday, Florida would give state recognition to the Santa Rosa Band of the Lower Muscogee, the Muscogee Nation of Florida and the Lower Chattahoochee Band of Yuchi Indians.

Hurricane Ian struck Southwest Florida in the same place where Florida’s powerful Calusa natives lived over 2,000 years ago. From dealing with sea level fluctuations to a massive hurricane around A.D. 300, their fishing and building adaptations can teach us about dealing with coastal change.

Climate change threatens not only the future of Florida’s barrier islands, but all they hold about the past.

The exhibition features over 100 artworks by twelve artists, ranging from painting, photography, woodworking, textiles, and beadwork to installation art.

HistoryMiami museum has remains and funerary artifacts from 132 Tequesta and Calusa tribe individuals. Those tribes are considered extinct, but the Seminole Tribe of Florida has long claimed to be their descendants.

The sash reportedly worn at the time of his capture in the early 19th century is on display for the first time at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, but not for long.

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.