The Indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what is now the United States approximately 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. These Paleo-Indians foun
The Seminole family of Cypress Tiger in 1916
A Calusa wood carving of an alligator head excavated in Key Marco in 1895, on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés maintained a friendly relationship with the Tequesta.
A Seminole man fishing in the Everglades, 1919
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The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The
Indigenous people of the Everglades region
…The Indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what is now the United States approximately 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. These Paleo-Indians…
The most prominent feature of the Everglades are the sawgrass prairies found across the region.
Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast
A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades, 1966
Uneven limestone formations in an Everglades sawgrass prairie