Oklahoma Seminole Nation Joins Protest Against Florida Detention Center

Oklahoma Seminole Nation joins protest against Florida detention center

The Oklahoma Seminole Nation is joining Florida tribes in opposing a new immigration detention center in the Everglades, which they say insults their ancestral homeland and threatens the ecosystem.

Seminole Tribe of Florida joins opposition to 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades

The Seminole Tribe of Florida joined the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma in denouncing Alligator Alcatraz.

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma officials, Florida tribes join forces to fight ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Jake Tiger, a cultural specialist for the Seminole Nation, is poling a dugout canoe in the Florida Everglades. He said his first trip there was in 2022 with a delegation aiming to establish a government-to-government connection between the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, to demonstrate that despite the separate land bases, the spirits of the Seminole people remain as strong as they were in 1832. (Photo Courtesy Of …

Seminole Nation, Florida tribes join forces to fight ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Seminole and Miccosukee leaders condemn Florida’s migrant detention center project near ancestral lands as an act of ongoing colonialism. The post Seminole Nation, Florida tribes join forces to fight ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ first appeared on The Journal Record.