IMMOKALEE — With the stroke of a pen on Oct. 26, 1989, hundreds of Tribal members, local politicians and community members witnessed the birth of the Immokalee Reservation as William D. Ott, Eastern Area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, signed the documents that placed 595 acres into trust

HOLLYWOOD — Longtime National Public Radio (NPR) host and reporter Jacki Lyden recently visited the Hollywood Reservation to research Seminole patchwork for an upcoming series of radio broadcasts and podcasts about fashion as culture. "These people had to become invisible to survive the Seminole Wars," Lyden said. "But in the 20th

HOLLYWOOD — As an infant, Star Nayea was taken from her home in Canada and adopted by a white family in Detroit, Michigan under the Indian Adoption Project, a controversial federal program that placed Native children into adoptive homes from 1958 to 1967. She suffered years of abuse and does

HOLLYWOOD — Destiny Nunez was named Miss Florida Seminole 2015-16 during the 58th annual Princess Pageant July 25, keeping the crown with Brighton Reservation for another year. The newly crowned Jr. Miss Florida Seminole Skyla Osceola hails from Hollywood. Destiny’s crowning was an emotional family affair as her younger sister and

CLEWISTON — Despite pleas from Seminole Tribe of Florida members and environmentalists to stop Florida Power & Light (FPL) again from building a massive electric generating plant on land next door to the Big Cypress Reservation, Hendry County Board of County Commissioners voted for comprehensive land plan changes that could

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK — Just past the asphalt that makes up U.S. 41 from Krome Avenue in Miami to San Marco Road in Collier County lies wetlands rich with flora, wildlife, prehistoric secrets and scores of Miccosukee and Seminole families. Beneath the highway, also called Tamiami Trial, is buried history from

IMMOKALEE — Eight families returned home to the Immokalee Reservation June 26 after the completion and grand opening of new, long-awaited townhomes. Raul Escobar, who has lived nearby off the reservation with his family for 16 years, signed his lease during the grand opening event and moved in the same afternoon

Two new programs offered through the Tribe’s Children’s Center for Diagnostics and Therapy (CCDT) are providing special needs children with fun ways to learn. The youngsters can now shoot hoops during basketball clinics and straddle horses at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena all while receiving important therapy outside of a therapist’s

Another record-breaking calf sale made for busy days during the annual calf shipment July 6-17 in Brighton and Big Cypress, where nearly 3,000 calves were rounded up for transport to feedlots across the country, Seminole 4-H’ers and the Tribe. The two reservations exceeded more than $5 million in calf sales and

MIAMI — The Seminole Tribe’s Joe Dan Osceola, along with two other individuals, was presented the first International Hero Award July 16 by the Calle Ocho Chamber of Commerce USA. The award honors businessmen who have excelled internationally in their trade for more than 25 years, exchanged culturally with other countries