New Tome Touts Tribe's Tourist Tradition: The Enduring Seminoles;

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Seminole Tribune

10-30-1998

New Tome Touts Tribe's Tourist Tradition: The Enduring Seminoles; From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism by Patsy West, University Press of Florida (1998).

By Charles Flowers

For most non-Natives, the first contact with the Seminole or Miccosukee Tribe was probably at a tourist attraction, an air boat ride or a powwow.

What South Florida school-child has not seen the soft pink mouth of an alligator pried open by a m...

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