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>> how did you get this out here? that's amazing. in the 1950s, the seminoles signed a treaty with the u.s. but the miccosukee held out. >> we kind of came to a truce. we didn't sign a peace treaty, so technically we're still at war, but it's lawyers, i guess. >> lawyers instead of -- >> instead of bows and arrows and guns. >> the federal government would not recognize their right to this land until chief buffalo tiger went to cuba to hang out with fidel castro. >> so they kind of forced the hand of the united states government. >> very shrewd. >> to get their recognition. >> was that buffalo tiger's plan? let me go flirt with castro and it will make them grow fonder? >> because they need to do something to protect the people. i remember my mother mentioning when she was younger, you know, people would shoot guns into the indian camps and she remembers having to hide. >> through it all they lived off this soggy land, hunting, fishing, farming. >> when people talk about everglades, they only think of water. we think of the water, the animals, the air, the plant life