Everglades National Park creation displaced Seminole families from their homes

Evidence

In this century, two major events pushed the Seminoles apart: the creation of the Everglades National Park in 1947 and further subsequent development, and a 1976 Indian Claims Commission (ICC) settlement offer. The former left hundreds of families homeless and pushed some onto the federally created reservations. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 185

Categorization

• XREF: A conservation displacement case bridging eco-justice and land rights — parallels settler wilderness-to-park dispossession threaded through the whole polyad. — connects to: Agricultural drainage destroyed half of America’s original wetlands — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 166; Yellowstone National Park was seized from Native people promised the territory — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 753
• QUESTION: Conservation-justified displacement of the same kind crops up elsewhere (protected areas forcing out indigenous residents); worth tracking the pattern across cases.
• SEED: The made-by-conservation homeless is a strong angle: environmental protection and settler displacement are not opposites in this history.

Broader Connections

• Yellowstone National Park was seized from Native people promised the territory #exemplifies (0.90) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 753