An Ethnohistory of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida
Paige JC and Van Horn LF. 1982. An Ethnohistory of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. NPS Denver Service Center. Denver Colorado
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 peoples are historically and culturally and what the effects have been of EuroAmerican 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
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Paige, John; Van Horn, Lawrence
- Date of Issue
- 1982-08
- Publisher
- NPS Denver Service Center
- Units
- BICY , EVER
- Keywords
- Acculturation, Anthropology, Bay City Walking Dredge, Big Cypress National Preserve, Breathmaker, Buffalo Tiger, Camp Moultrie, Cattle, Ceremonies, Clans, Creek, Cultural Traditions, Culture, Dwarf Cypress Forest, Ethnicity, Farm Use, Fishing, Florida, Green Corn Dance, Hunting, Immokalee Reservation, Kinship, Land Development, Land Use, Language, Miami, Miccosukee, Miccosukee Strip, Moultrie Creek Treaty, Occupancy, Oil and Gas Exploration, Population, Reclamation, Religion, Reservations, Sacred, Seminole, Seminole War, South Florida, Swamp Act, Tamiami Trail, Timber Industry, Trapping, Treaty at Payne’s Landing, Tribes, Wet Prairie, William Osceola