Capturing a Seminole tradition: alligator wrestling

by Siobhan Miller - June 5, 2019

There are usually two sides to every story. Sometimes stories become woven together so tightly that it is difficult to untangle them over the course of time. The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum’s next exhibit about alligator wrestling is one of those stories. Alligator Wrestling: Danger. Entertainment. Tradition. opens this December. Through the exhibit,

Fred Montsdeoca: So much more than an agricultural agent

by Siobhan Miller - September 7, 2018

In the second year of the Museum’s mobile cattle cart exhibit, the cart made an appearance at six events from October of 2017 to May 2018. Despite its size, it provides a fairly succinct overview of cattle keeping among the Florida Seminoles since the Spanish first introduced “cattle” to the Florida

Pointing the way

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by Siobhan Miller - October 31, 2017October 30, 2017

Have you ever wondered how the Pointing Man signs came to be and why the likeness of Jack Tigertail became the “poster” image for more than his own Seminole community? The story is as much about Jack Tigertail’s presence as it is about a clever marketing ploy used to sell a

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