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The Big Cypress Reservation is one of the six Indian reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County, in southern Florida, United States. Its location is on the Atlantic coastal plain. This reservation lies south of Lake Okeechobee and just north of Alligator Alley.
The Seminole Tribe currently has six reservations: [31] Big Cypress Reservation, the largest territory, including 81.972 sq mi (212.306 km²) [43] Brighton Reservation, 57.090 sq mi (147.862 km²) Hollywood Reservation, 497 acres (2.01 km 2) [48] Immokalee Reservation, in Immokalee, Collier County, 594.45 acres (2.4057 km 2)
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki is a museum of Seminole culture and history, located on the Big Cypress Reservation in Hendry County, Florida. The museum is owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The museum itself was named in a Seminole language phrase: Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki, which means "a place to learn, a place to remember". [1]
Seminole patchwork shawl made by Susie Cypress from Big Cypress Indian Reservation, ca. 1980s. The Seminoles worked hard to adapt, but they were highly affected by the rapidly changing American environment. Natural disasters magnified changes from the governmental drainage project of the Everglades.
The other five Seminole Tribe of Florida reservations are: Big Cypress Reservation, the largest territory, including 81.972 sq mi (212.306 km 2), in Broward and Hendry Counties [7] Hollywood Reservation (formerly called the Dania Reservation), 497 acres (2.01 km 2) acres, [8] Broward County [7] Immokalee Reservation, Collier County
Big Cypress Reservation: Seminole: Florida: 591: 82.15 (212.78) ... These areas have a substantial concentration of members of tribes that are State recognized but ...
The Ah-Tha-Thi-Ki ("to learn") Museum on the Seminole Big Cypress Reservation is located near where Abiaka is believed to be buried. A bronze statue of Abiaka which includes Abiaka alongside various animals that symbolize the animal clans of the Seminole tribe is located at the Seminole Big Cypress Reservation.
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.