Court filings appear to undermine DHS claims that the Everglades facility was a state project, potentially reviving a court-ordered shutdown
Faculty union demands answers after Prism and other news outlets reported that Florida International University supplied equipment to “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center
The tribe, whose territory is adjacent to the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, joined a lawsuit against the state and federal governments on July 14
Under the agreement with Everglades National Park, the tribe will actively participate in wildland fire management, water resource management, and hydrological management
The National Park Service is proposing to designate 200,000 acres of Big Cypress National Preserve as wilderness. The designation would sever Indigenous tribes’, namely the Miccosukee’s, access to the area, which has been their ancestral lands for centuries—much like what happened when most of Everglades National Park
“We keep asking you to leave our ancestors in the ground, leave our artifacts in the ground,” one Indigenous advocate said
Three workers are voicing health and other safety concerns at the landmark 2,500-year-old Tequesta site
Miami archeologists discovered 7,000 year-old artifacts and they believe the site was a Tequesta marketplace built over 2,500 years ago
Environmental advocates and Indigenous people are concerned the drilling will destroy the wetlands, pave over acres of wildlife, divert water, and more
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