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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.
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]
Ahfachkee School, also known as Ahfachkee Day School, is a tribal K–12 school in unincorporated Hendry County, Florida, on the Big Cypress Reservation, with a Clewiston postal address. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [3] As of 2007 about 80% of the funding comes from the Seminole tribe and 20% comes from the BIE. [4]
By 1944, the Big Cypress Seminole wanted their own trustees and drafted an agreement with the government. Approved by the BIA commissioner on August 8, 1945, this agreement called for the establishment of the Brighton Agricultural and Livestock Enterprise and the Big Cypress Agricultural and Livestock Enterprise, each with their own three ...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the ... Big Cypress Reservation: Seminole: Florida: 591: 82.15 (212. ...
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida. They control several reservations: Big Cypress, Brighton Reservation, Fort Pierce Reservation, Hollywood Reservation, Immokalee Reservation, and Tampa Reservation. [56]
It is named for Josie Billie, a medicine man who lived on the reservation and was a public spokesman for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. [6] In 1970, SR 833 was extended from the Big Cypress Indian Reservation south through the Miccosukee Indian Reservation to Alligator Alley, which at the time was a two-lane toll road designated SR 84. [7]
Managed by the Seminole Tribe of Florida at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation, artifacts, culture, and life of the Seminole in the swamps of Florida Air Force Armament Museum: Eglin Air Force Base: Okaloosa Northwest Aerospace Air Force planes, bombs, missiles, rockets, and other military weapons Air Force Space and Missile Museum: Cape ...