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Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank, top left, rides an airboat with members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 on the Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Airboats carry members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Airboats carry members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)They’re working to stop oil exploration and successfully fought a wilderness designation that would have cut their access to ancestral lands. They’ve pushed for a project to reconnect the western Everglades with the larger ecosystem while helping to control invasive species and reintroducing racoons, hawks and other native animals. In August they signed a co-stewardship agreement for some of South Florida’s natural landscapes. They’ve held prayer walks, launched campaigns to raise awareness of important issues and used airboat tours as public classrooms.Even so, a new report on the progress of Everglades work acknowledges a lack of meaningful and consistent engagement with the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes. It calls for applying Indigenous knowledge to restoration efforts and a steady partnership with tribes, whose longstanding, intimate and reciprocal relationship with the environment can help with understanding historical and present ecological conditions.

Members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades stand beside chickees, thatched-roof, open-sided platform huts used traditionally for cooking, sleeping, and gathering, on Big Hammock, one of the largest tree islands within the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in the Florida Everglades, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades stand beside chickees, thatched-roof, open-sided platform huts used traditionally for cooking, sleeping, and gathering, on Big Hammock, one of the largest tree islands within the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in the Florida Everglades, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

For generations, the Miccosukee people would make pilgrimages from northern Florida to the Everglades to fish, hunt and hold religious ceremonies. When the Seminole Wars broke out in 1817, the tribe navigated the vast terrain better than the U.S. Army. By the late 1850s, Col. Gustavus Loomis had seared every tribal village and field in a region known as the Big Cypress, forcing the Miccosukee and Seminole people to seek refuge on tree islands deep in the Everglades.

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