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"Miami, Florida, is renowned for its flashy clubs, Art Deco design and eclectic
Latin and Caribbean culture. Yet, most visitors today have no idea that Miami –
one of the United States' youngest major cities – is built directly over one of
America's oldest Indigenous civilisations.
From roughly 500 BCE to the mid-1700s, what is now Miami was inhabited by the
Tequesta civilisation, one of the first people to occupy south-eastern
Florida. The Tequesta settled near the mouth of the Miami River and Biscayne
Bay and built a thriving coastal society alongside a far-reaching trade
network. Today, South Florida, and to a broader extent, all of Florida, is
located on Tequesta, Seminole and Miccosukee Indigenous ancestral lands. And
as the region's population has rapidly grown in the last few decades,
archaeological discoveries found along the Miami River area have shed new
light on Miami's little-known Indigenous history.
Betty Osceola, a member of the Miccosukee tribe (which emerged after the
Tequesta, but whose history predates Columbus), has been working for years to
educate newcomers and visitors about the Miami area's Indigenous past.
Alongside groups like the Love the Everglades Movement and the Eco Preservation
Project, Osceola explained how the rising waters of the surrounding Everglades
ecosystem due to climate change and human intervention threatens the
Miccosukee's ancestral home and way of living."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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