In 1959 a group of Miccosukee Indians, frustrated in their attempts
to gain official recognition by the United States, met with Fidel
Castro and were recognized by the Cuban government. The man behind
this unprecedented move to provoke the United States government
into action was Buffalo Tiger, a Miccosukee elder who has become
one of the most prominent Indian leaders in the southeastern United
States in the modern era.
This book is the story of Buffalo Tiger's life, told in his own
words. Born in a small village in the Everglades in 1920, Buffalo
Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of
the Miccosukees. Making their home for generations in the remote
reaches of the Everglades, the Miccosukees were able to retain much
of their older way of life well into the twentieth century. As the
modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades
shrank around them, Buffalo Tiger became an energetic and outspoken
leader of the community. He and other Miccosukees fought for years
to escape the shadow of the larger, better known, and more
politically powerful Seminoles. As the first tribal chairman of the
Miccosukees, Buffalo Tiger oversaw the adoption of a tribal
constitution and worked diligently for reforms and to protect the
community's cultural and natural resources. In the 1970s the
Miccosukees became the first modern tribe to take complete control
of their affairs and federal budget.
Buffalo Tiger's penetrating observations about his people and
the world around them, combined with the skilled scholarship of
historian Harry A. Kersey Jr., strikingly illuminate a memorable
life, a tireless leader, and an Indian community still proud to
call the "River of Grass" its home.
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