“Tree islands” deep in a sea of grass once helped Native Americans elude capture by U.S. troops. A tour of these refuges reveals a rich culture and a new risk: rising water. Islands deep in the ...

Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribal judge and an environmental activist, owns Buffalo Tiger Airboat Tours. Scott McIntyre for The New York Times A palm-thatched structure called a chickee. Scott ...

To an outsider, the Big Cypress Preserve in the Florida Everglades may look like a vast stretch of wilderness, untouched by human hands. But to the Miccosukee Tribe, it is sacred land they have called ...