Seminole Tribe of Florida

The sash reportedly worn at the time of his capture in the early 19th century is on display for the first time at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, but not for long.

Two young Tribal members share their thoughts on what they learned about Seminole history and their experiences on the island.

Since its first survey in 1877, Egmont Key has lost more than half of its land mass. While some worry that losing the island would be an incalculable loss to Gulf Coast Florida’s cultural heritage and ecological resources, others believe the best way to manage the island is to let nature run its course.

In the 1800s, the U.S. Army used Egmont Key to imprison Seminole captives, and historians have described conditions on the island as a concentration camp. Over the last decade, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has launched a robust investigation into this period of Seminole removal to piece together and better understand this little-known chapter.

Florida Education Champions, a political committee sponsoring the sports-betting measure, got only 472,927 of the 900,000 signatures required to place the proposal on the November ballot.

The U.S. Department of the Interior filed a notice that it intends to appeal a ruling that invalidated a 30-year deal negotiated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Seminole tribal leaders and ratified by state lawmakers in May.

The Seminole Tribe “will temporarily suspend operations of its mobile app in Florida” following the decision.

It was not immediately clear whether the Seminoles plan to suspend their online sports-betting operations after the appeals court’s decision.

The emergency motion comes after a U.S. district judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the gambling deal between the state and the tribe violated federal law.

In denying the stay, Friedrich wrote, in part, that a stay during an appeal is an “extraordinary remedy” and that the tribe did not meet legal tests to justify it.

Although the compact deems sports betting to occur at the location of the tribe’s servers, the judge wrote that “this court cannot accept that fiction.”

There’s no accurate count of the number of Native American women who go missing or are murdered every year in the United States.