Usual and Customary Use and Occupancy by the Miccosukee and Seminole Indians in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida
Goss JA. Usual and Customary Use and Occupancy by the Miccosukee and Seminole Indians in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. Ethnographic Overview and Assessment. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Atlanta, Georgia
The establishment of the Big Cypress National Preserve on October 11, 1974 marked the creation of a new multi-use category of lands within the National Park system. It also introduced another management variable in the Big Cypress National Preserve enabling legislation by establishing special access rights of certain Native American communities. It said: "…Notwithstanding this section or any other provision of this Act, members of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida and members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida shall be permitted, subject to reasonable regulations established by the Secretary, to continue their usual and customary use and occupancy of Federal or federally acquired lands and waters within the preserve, including hunting, fishing, and trapping on a subsistence basis and traditional tribal ceremonials" (U.S Congress 1974 Public Law 93-440, Section 5) This report proposes to establish a baseline understanding of what the actual pattern of Miccosukee and Seminole “usual and customary use and occupancy” of Big Cypress National Preserve was as of 1974.
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- Published Report
- Authors
- Goss, James
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- NPS Southeast Regional Office
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- BICY
- Keywords
- Anthropology, Big Cypress National Preserve, Breathmaker, Buckskin Declaration, Clans, Corn Dance, Cultural Traditions, Dance, Ethnicity, Fishing, Florida, For Gibson Treaty, Glades Culture, Hunting, Immokalee Reservation, Indian Removal Act, Language, Miami, Miccosukee, Moultrie Creek Treaty, Occupancy, Population, Reservations, Sacred, Seminole, South Florida, Special Use Permit, Swamp Act, Tamiami Trail, Trapping, Treaty at Payne’s Landing, Tribal Ceremonies, Tribes, Worth Agreement