HOLLYWOOD — The Seminole Police and Fire departments had a strong presence at the South East Police Motorcycle Rodeo and Public Safety Expo, which took place on May 5 at the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Four SPD officers competed in the Motorcycle Rodeo along with about 100 riders from

By Naji Tobias BIG CYPRESS — The Tribal youth showed up and showed out at this year’s 4-H Show and Sale in Big Cypress. From March 29-31, Tribal youth from Big Cypress, Brighton and Immokalee brought out their heifers, steer and swine at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena for the conclusion of

By Naji Tobias BIG CYPRESS — Inside the Big Cypress Rodeo Arena, Kamani Smith brushed his swine during the Seminole Indian 4-H Show and Sale on March 31. The 10-year-old Tribal youth, an Okeechobee resident from the Brighton Reservation, spent the last two months raising his pig for the end of the

By Naji Tobias BIG CYPRESS — Cowboys and ranchers mounted their horses and steered more than 200 cows across the Big Cypress Reservation last month on an 8-mile journey for the 16th annual Junior Cypress Cattle Drive. The March 17 event featured cattle from the Immokalee Reservation’s Seminole Ranch, as well as

TAMPA — The first job seeker showed up at 2:30 a.m. First in line at the appointed State Fairgrounds exhibition hall, early bird Yvette Dube was followed by more than a thousand others hoping to successfully apply for more than 400 available jobs at the nearby Seminole Hard Rock Hotel

BRIGHTON — Lorene Gopher strolled about her "kitchen" beneath the large cookfire chickee in her backyard, not far from the main road through the Brighton Reservation. She gave the boiling swamp cabbage a stir with a long spoon, nudged the pair of roasting gopher turtles – upside down and still

By Betty Luckey BRIGHTON — On March 25, First Indian Baptist Church of Brighton celebrated "Wonder Johns Appreciation Day." The church was filled with people from the community and from other reservations and churches. Tribal leaders, church members and pastors, community leaders and family members expressed gratitude to the Rev. Wonder

By Kathryn Stolarz TAMPA — He stepped up to the line in his blue jeans, plaid shirt and Seminole Tribe hat, loaded his Perazzi shotgun and yelled, "Pull!" As an orange clay target shot out of a machine at 42 mph, the 66-year-old’s bullet flew out at 1,145 feet per second,

By Kathryn Stolarz HOLLYWOOD — The 1000+ Club recently honored Hollywood Hard Rock employee Susan Renneisen as one of 13 Women of the Year for her involvement with Winterfest. Winterfest is a not-for-profit organization that puts on the annual Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade, which the Seminole Hard Rock has sponsored the

TALLAHASSEE — Phase One of the new Forever Changed: La Florida, 1513–1821 exhibit opened at the Museum of Florida History last month, highlighting an important, but often overlooked era in state history. The exhibit aims to show that when Europeans came ashore almost 500 years ago, Florida was already home to