Museum offers free admission in July for teachers Education Top News by The Seminole Tribune - May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. BIG CYPRESS – Teachers can visit the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum for free in July. Up to four guests accompanied by teachers will receive 50% off standard admission to the museum on the tribe’s Big Cypress Reservation. Teachers and their guests will have an opportunity to learn
Career fair features education opportunities, tribal-wide departments Community Education by Tatum Mitchell - May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 The Education Department at career fair on April 23 at the Howard Tiger Recreation Center. (Tatum Mitchell) HOLLYWOOD — A career fair brought booths from the Environmental Resources Department to Human Resources to Tribal Community Development. With about 30 exhibitors, some colleges or education-related, students, community members and tribal employees filtered
Brighton students build chickee over spring break Community Education by Beverly Bidney - May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 Culture staff, adult helpers and students pose by the new chickee they built in front of the Brighton Cultural Center Complex in March. (Courtesy photo) A group of Brighton students made good use of their time during spring break March 17-21 by helping to build a chickee at the Brighton Cultural
Brighton hosts Earth Day event Community Education by Beverly Bidney - May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 PECS kindergarten students look in the trees for signs of birds or their nests during Brighton’s Earth Day event April 22. (Beverly Bidney) BRIGHTON — The Environmental Protection Office (EPO) honored the planet April 22 with an Earth Day event that included information on what individuals can do to protect the
Libraries stock reading bins at tribal clinic and dental waiting rooms Education Health by Beverly Bidney - April 16, 2025April 16, 2025 From left to right, Big Cypress education work experience trainee Janessa Jones, CBH administrative assistant Maria Rivera, CBH child clinical associate Gabriella Velasco and library assistant Claudia Doctor with the book bin. (Courtesy photo) As part of an effort to encourage literacy, the Education Department’s Library Program has been providing reading
Museum presents Seminole war history at national education conference Education by Beverly Bidney - April 15, 2025April 15, 2025 Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum education coordinator Abena Robinson works at the information booth at the conference. (Courtesy photo) Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum educators brought Seminole history to life for hundreds of history teachers at the annual conference of the National Council for History Education in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 21. Museum education coordinator Abena
Seminole, Miccosukee tribes to participate in symposium at FSU Education Events News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - January 8, 2025January 8, 2025 The Native American and Indigenous Studies Center at Florida State University in Tallahassee. (Photo by Kevin Johnson) Florida State University will host “Two Tribes of Florida: A Shared Environment,” a symposium featuring tribal members from the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and others. The
Tribal veterans Paul Bowers Sr., Mitchell Cypress share wartime experiences at Ahfachkee Community Education Top Story by Beverly Bidney - December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 Veterans Mitchell Cypress, left, and Paul Bowers Sr. in the Ahfachkee School gym before their presentation to the middle and high school students Nov. 13. (Beverly Bidney) BIG CYPRESS — Ahfachkee School middle and high school students heard firsthand accounts of serving in the military from tribal veterans Paul Bowers Sr.
Concession stand at PECS track meet raises money for safety patrol Community Education by Beverly Bidney - December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 PECS staff sold candy, snacks and drinks to raise money for the school’s end of the year trip. From left are Michele Thomas, Stephanie Tedders, Dixie Houston and Tracy Downing. In front is 8th grade member of the safety patrol Payton Barasch. (Beverly Bidney) BRIGHTON — The Pemayetv Emahakv Charter Safety
Immokalee Elaponke bingo aims to help revitalize language Community Education Top Story by Beverly Bidney - December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 Language department director Francine Osceola checks Spencer Jock’s winning bingo card during the Immokalee Elaponke bingo game Nov. 14. (Beverly Bidney) The goal of the tribe’s language department seems simple enough; to create more fluent speakers, reinforce what’s already there and try to bring conversation back. In an effort to meet that