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Pow-Wows Success,
Tribe Told
By Bert Collier,
Herald Staff Writer
The Miami
Herald
November
21, 1958
Four
emissaries of the
Miccosukee Seminole
Indians returned from
Washington Thursday with
news that the tribe has
a good chance of getting
thousands of acres
of
Everglades land
from the
government.
Buffalo Tiger,
chief of the delegation,
said the tribe considers
the land its own, by
ancient right. The
Indians tried to get
that point over in talks
with high officials,
including Glenn Emmons,
U.S. commissioner for
Indian affairs.
But the real ace in
the hole, Buffalo Tiger
said, is the
recent discovery of
musty old treaties with
England, Spain and
France guaranteeing the
Indians rights to
certain lands.
Even the Louisiana
Purchase Agreement is
cited by the Indians
in their
Washington pow-wows. In
This, Napoleon’s
government demanded that
the U.S. recognize the
rights of "Spain’s
Indians,"
which the
Seminoles claimed to be
at that time." Buffalo
Tiger said he and his
three colleagues will
report results of their
Washington talks to the
tribal council and will
receive instructions for
further negotiations.
"I would say that the
trip was a success,"
said the leader of the
tribal council.
Buffalo Tiger was
accompanied by Sam
Willie, medicine man and
patriarch of the "Trail"
Indians; Nelson Panther,
Sam Willie’s son.
Morton Silver, the
Miccosukees’ attorney,
made the trip. The
Indians also received
aid from Mrs. Evelyn
Harvey, head of the
Miccosukee Seminole
Indian Association.
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