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Paved With Good Intentions: How the Road Through the Everglades Harmed the Seminole and Miccosukee
Paved With Good Intentions: How the Road Through the Everglades Harmed the Seminole and Miccosukee
While we celebrate the construction of the Tamiami Trail as a “miracle of modern engineering” that connected Florida’s coast and opened Southwest Florida to tourism, we often fail to acknowledge the reality that there were indigenous people living in the lands the road was built through. The Tamiami Trail not only displaced the native population,