Miccosukee Seminole Indian tribe
Over 200 years ago, the Miccosukee tribe have been known by its characteristic way of fighting to protect their territory. First, the Spaniards, and then even worse, the Anglo-American who tried to exterminate the Miccosukee’s Indians almost two centuries ago and who eventually left them no other option than to live in a very small place in ancestral areas of the Everglades in Miami. The Indians seeking for a decent style of life had to adapt themselves to sleep in hammocks. Their houses were called “chickees” and were made of wood, plaster, thatched roofs, and perhaps raised on stilts. After all this battle and years of persecution, they started to establish their permanent home and look for a better life …show more content…
The best part of all of this is their strong desire to succeed in foreign land and how they keep expanding and growing culturally. I believe this is something to admire; members of this tribe are now recognized as perseverant and for their strong desire of self-sufficiency.
Back then, when the Indians sought refuge among the hammocks of the Everglades and the war was still going, the troops never stopped following them, they were killed and captured, and their little houses were burned. "They hunted us with dogs," says Virginia Poole, a tribal member who at age 50 is considered an elder entrusted with responsibility for passing on Miccosukee history.
When people disagree with the accommodation of this tribe in Miami, most of them don’t know all the difficulties this tribe had to go through. They not only were kicked out from their original place of establishment but they were forced to move in a region of pure Nature. We need to keep I mind that this conditions of life style were extremely dangerous, they were exposed to infections, animals persecution around the Everglades and the weather conditions changing
Over 200 years ago, the Miccosukee tribe have been known by its characteristic way of fighting to protect their territory. First, the Spaniards, and then even worse, the Anglo-American who tried to exterminate the Miccosukee’s Indians almost two centuries ago and who eventually left them no other option than to live in a very small place in ancestral areas of the Everglades in Miami. The Indians seeking for a decent style of life had to adapt themselves to sleep in hammocks. Their houses were called “chickees” and were made of wood, plaster, thatched roofs, and perhaps raised on stilts. After all this battle and years of persecution, they started to establish their permanent home and look for a better life …show more content…
The best part of all of this is their strong desire to succeed in foreign land and how they keep expanding and growing culturally. I believe this is something to admire; members of this tribe are now recognized as perseverant and for their strong desire of self-sufficiency.
Back then, when the Indians sought refuge among the hammocks of the Everglades and the war was still going, the troops never stopped following them, they were killed and captured, and their little houses were burned. "They hunted us with dogs," says Virginia Poole, a tribal member who at age 50 is considered an elder entrusted with responsibility for passing on Miccosukee history.
When people disagree with the accommodation of this tribe in Miami, most of them don’t know all the difficulties this tribe had to go through. They not only were kicked out from their original place of establishment but they were forced to move in a region of pure Nature. We need to keep I mind that this conditions of life style were extremely dangerous, they were exposed to infections, animals persecution around the Everglades and the weather conditions changing