An ethnohistory of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida
Paige JC and Van Horn LF. 1982. An ethnohistory of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. Denver Service Center, National Park Service
This report focuses on land use by Seminole and Miccosukee Indians and Euro-Americans in the area of southern Florida that is now Big Cypress National Preserve and in adjacent areas, known collectively as Big Cypress Swamp and the Everglades. Sequential land uses are discussed in the context of who the Seminole and Miccosukee people are historically and culturally and what the effects have been of Euro-American contact, settlement, and development. The Seminoles and Miccosukees have witnessed swamp drainage, land booms, the building of the Tamiami Trail, and the creation of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve.