BRIGHTON — Billie Micco is known as someone who stayed connected with his family and the tribe during his often busy life. The lifelong resident of the Brighton Reservation worked for the Seminole Tribe for almost four decades in all – for 13 years in the public works department (specifically in

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic to Indigenous communities has been an outsized one compared to other populations. It magnified Indian Country’s longtime deficiencies in infrastructure, health care, food security, housing, technology and more. A new report shows that the Native American philanthropic sector stepped up to fill in gaps in the

BIG CYPRESS — Starting in the 1990s, the U.S. government aimed to restore the water system on the Big Cypress Reservation with a project that was supposed to rehydrate wetlands, improve water quality and enhance water storage capacity. Instead, the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation Water Conservation Project never worked

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently sent a required report to Congress on what it calls “Everglades restoration momentum.” The most significant part of the 144-page report, now available to the public, is the status of the multibillion-dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, which has been ongoing since 2000. The