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Florida has a long and continuing history of rapid development, which is often in conflict with the protection and preservation of archaeological sites. In the past 65 years, Florida's population has risen from 5 million to 22.95 million, [22] which increases the need for funds for cultural and historic resources. One major issue facing those ...
Muspas - People living in southwestern Florida in the first half of the 19th century, at one time believed to be remnants of the Calusa. [ 57 ] Rancho Indians - Native American people and people of mixed native American and Spanish ancestry worked and lived at seasonal fishing ranchos (fishing camps) established by Spanish/Cuban fishermen along ...
Similar, but non-statewide, acts extinguished some aboriginal title in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York. The Vermont Supreme Court has held, in actions where aboriginal title was raised as a defense by criminal defendants, that all aboriginal title in Vermont was extinguished when Vermont became a state. [56]
Aboriginal child protection may be an integral or a distinct aspect of mainstream services or it may be exercised formally or informally by an aboriginal people itself. There has been controversy about systemic genocide in child protection systems enforced with aboriginal children in post-colonial societies.
Broward U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz painted a dire picture of Florida at the DNC | Opinion
Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements of cultural heritage that are a part of their existence and identity as a people.
Furthermore, he says that "The Modoc genocide is hardly the only genocide against Indigenous people that has been sanitized as war." [57] According to Frank Chalk, in the 19th century United States, the federal government policy toward Native Americans was ethnocide, but when they resisted, the result sometimes was genocidal. [58]
The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what is now the United States approximately 14,000 to 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted to prairie and xeric scrub conditions.