Billie Swamp Safari Tour at Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation - 3 19 06
Billie Swamp Safari Tour at Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation is a great place to spend a day If you want to get away from it all, Billie Swamp Safari is a good start for a Day Trip.
From either Florida coast. drive across the Glades on I-75 and exit at mile marker 49 as 20 miles of 45 mph narrow two-lane road stretches out to your destination. Buzzards circle lazily, pastures on either side filled with cattle from the Seminole ranches and the slowed-down pace puts you back in the world instead of just buzzing past it.
Before you get to Billie Swamp Safari you pass through a couple of Seminole community areas
Right where you turn for the museum is the road leading to Billie Swamp Safari. A big gift shop greats you when you arrive and the grounds are full of chickee huts used for programs and shows.
There are gopher turtles and giant tortoises along with an alligator tank you can walk above. The Swamp Water Café offers native and American choices and in the same building is a small casino.
There is a critter show and alligator wrestling and two types of swamp tours — by airboat (earplugs included with admission) or swamp buggy for the overland experience. The airboats almost glide on air as the powerful motors send then sliding across shallow water and lily pads. The swamp buggy is part on dry land and part driving through shallow water. You are likely to see some wildlife on both tours and gators are almost guaranteed.
There are also some evening and even night events at Billie’s and most are family friendly.
If you can’t get enough, spend the night in one of the chickee huts along the swamp waterway.
Check their website for details at billieswamp.com.
At the end of the day you get to repeat the long drive out and rejoin the fray on the interstate or head north from the community on SR 833 to Clewiston where you can pick up US 27.
The Seminole Tribe owns and operates Billie Swamp Safari and the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki museum.
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Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum - Seminole Tribe
The Seminole Tribe Of Florida's Museum at the Big Cypress Reservation in Hendry County, Florida. Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki means A place to learn and remember. The museum and reservation is southwest of Clewiston, Florida.
An excellent showcase of the tribe's history and a mile long boardwalk through a Cypress Swamp leading to a living village where craft work is presented by tribal members, a ceremonial grounds and a clan pavillon. The museum includes several galleries, a library and theater.
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Address: 30290 Josie Billie Hwy Clewiston, Fl.- Map:
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Took cousin Bill's new Jeep to run the trails over Clewiston, Canal Rd, Seminole Reservation and Bear Island Campground, joined the Crew JuanKa and Capi... we had Terapia de Humo, we talked Human Archeology and we created new plans to fight Zombies and Prepping for Zombie Apocalypse. In the mean time we enjoyed a bottle of Havana Club, the Cuban Ron. Great weekend with family and my Cuban Compadres.
Egmont Key has a dark and ugly past
Egmont Key is one of the most bright and beautiful places to visit in the Tampa Bay area. The experience of the ferry ride, spending the day in a tropical paradise -- it feels exotic, mysterious even. But, the island has a dark and ugly past for the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
This is an area where they tried to hold my ancestors and they tried to remove us from Florida,” said Quenton Cypress of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. And although they succeeded with only a few, the majority of us, we're still here.
For Native American Heritage Month, Quenton Cypress traveled from his reservation in Clewiston, Florida to Egmont Key to share his ancestors’ story with 10News. Workers with the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office and the University of South Florida joined him on the trip.
The Seminole story, unfortunately, here happens after you have the Americans come through. The Seminole Wars began in the early 1800s. And it's a period of constant struggle and warfare for the tribe,” said Dave Scheidecker, research coordinator for the Seminole’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office of Central Florida.
They were fighting to keep land that had always been theirs.
Most people learn about the Trail of Tears, but a lot of them don't know that the Seminoles were taken from Florida by boat, and Egmont Key was a really, significant stopping point for that,” said Lacee Cofer, chief data analyst for the Tribal Historic Preservation Office.
It’s a period of American history that’s often overlooked but a story the Tribe wants more widely-known.
“They were kept in prison and they were kept under watch by men with guns,” said Scheidecker. “1857 is when the first prisoners were brought out here...And over the next year, hundreds of Seminoles were brought out here, held against their will in the stockade and a camp before finally being taken out to Indian country in Oklahoma.”
“There are tribal members who referred to this as a concentration camp. And it checks every box for the definition of a concentration camp. It fully qualified as one,” said Scheidecker. “We try to pretend that kind of thing never happened here. This is the kind of history that people don't often want to look at. For the tribe, that's why it needs to be told. This happened here, this can happen here. This did happen here. And when people talk about now that this kind of thing could never happen in America would never happen here. It has.
Cypress said this is exactly why it’s a story that needs to be shared and discussed more often.
The US still isn't telling that story. They're trying to hide and push it away and push underneath the rug,” he said. “We're here to try and voice and tell that story and share it and make sure that the general population and everybody else knows our story and knows why we are the unconquerable Seminole Tribe of Florida. And just know that there's that fight that we had in us and we still have it to this very day.”
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VOICE OVER Intro: 00:13
Descubra a regiao profunda do Everglades, e encontre a terra da Tribo Indigena da Florida- os Seminoles. Aqui, os Seminoles tem mantido o legado de sua tribo, prosperando nos pântanos e florestas robustas do Everglades.
Intro ON CAMERA: 00:11
Ola, sou Karen. Vamos explorar os Everglades, no estilo da Tribo Indigena de Seminole- onde você podera experimentar a rica herança dessa tribo, e a beleza selvagem de seus pântanos!
VOICE OVER: 00:32
Bem-vindo ao Billie Swamp Safari. Localizado dentro do Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. Aqui você vai encontrar as melhores aventuras, mergulhando-se na beleza dos Everglades. Salte no Buggy Swamp, um Eco-tour passando por terras secas e molhadas. Sinta o vento contra o seu cabelo durante um passeio velóz pela área gramada em aerobarco,. Preste atenção em jacarés, tartarugas, peixes, passaros e outros animais exóticos! “Shows Com Bichos” e “Cobras Venenosas”, e shows de “Luta Com Jacares” são as atividades que voce não deve perder !
ON CAMERA: 00:05
Por perto, você encontrara o Museu Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki, que significa lugar para aprender.
VOICE OVER: 00:20
Apaixone-se com a história da tribo, e descubra exposições tribais, apresentando dioramas, filmes e exposições que representam sua cultura.
Para uma experiência íntima aqui no Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki, desfrute de uma caminhada através de uma trilha encantadora- passando por lindas árvores nativas e atravessando por uma verdadeira aldeia da tribo!
VOICE OVER: 00:17
Se você gosta de acampar, o Big Cypress RV Resort & Campground será o seu paraíso! Descanse em um Motorhome, se-acampe em uma barraca, ou desfrute de cabines confortáveis. Para uma verdadeira sensasao de férias, aproveite outras diversões ao ar livre, como o mini-golfe e uma piscina aquecida.
VOICE OVER: 00:24
Localizado a pouco mais de uma hora de distância, em Hollywood, Okalee Indian Village é onde aproveitara espetáculos animados que mostram a vida selvagem- como Lutas com Jacarés, em águas profundas! Outros shows apresentam cobras venenosas, gatos selvagens, e os ursos negros. Depois, aproveite a cultura da Tribo Seminole através de artesanais, jóias, cestas e roupas encontradas no gift shop.
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Nao tem nada melhor do que aproveitar Eco-tours em meio do Everglades, visitar exposições culturais, ou se divertir dentro de uma verdadeira aldeia moderna! Sem duvida, uma visita a Tribo Indígena da Flórida Seminole deve estar no topo do seu próximo destino!
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Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum Seminole Tribe Of Florida
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki is a museum of Seminole culture and history, located on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida. The museum is owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The museum opened in 1997.
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Florida Triple Murder Defendant Jury Verdict
A twelve member jury in Hendry County, Florida on February 18, 2012 found Ruby Yolanda Parker, age 36 guilty of three counts of Culpable Negligence, and guilty of Robbery in the five and one-half year old case of Florida vs. Parker. She stood accused of the murder of three Clewiston residents.
An armed Richard Harker and girlfriend Ruby Parker visited the home of Joey and Carolyn Whitaker and Myrtle Cox, 80-year old mother of Carolyn at 231 Avenida Del Rio in Clewiston on August 15, 2006. Hours later the Whitakers and Cox were dead, at the hand of Harker.
Harker killed himself with a gunshot to the head after he and Parker went through a police barricade at the Big Cypress Reservation in a truck stolen from the Whitakers.
The state charged Parker with three counts of murder and home invasion. Her defense had been being abused by Harker and held against her will in fear of her life.
After a two week trial in LaBelle, the jury this afternoon, at about 5 p.m. handed their verdict to Judge John E. Duryea, Jr. Deputy Clerk Patti George read the verdict. The jury started deliberations Friday night and went until midnight. reconvening at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
The three culpable negligence crimes are 2nd degree misdemeanors and robbery is a 2nd degree felony. Points will be accessed to determine state guidelines for sentencing Parker next week.
It may be she be credited with time served on the misdemeanors, she has been in jail for five and one-half years, and up to 14 years on the robbery depending on the scoring system and the judge's discretion in sentencing under the guidelines. She has no prior criminal convictions.
Judge Duryea heard the daughter of the Whitakers, Joy Cardoza, and Joey Whitaker's elder brother Wayne Whitaker speak before the court.
Ms. Cardoza, extemely upset fought to get the words out to voice how her two young children were deprived of their grandfather and grandmother because of the senseless murders by Harker, accompanied by Parker.
Cardoza bemoaned how her family's lives have changed while the defendant will eventually get out of jail and go on with her life after just a few years in confinement.
Wayne Whitaker, the older brother of Joey Whitaker, visibly shaken recalled with pain how he remembers the tape used to suffocate the victims and how he had to identify the lifeless bodies, a sight that will never leave my head, he said. He told the judge how he had suffered another family tragedy in 1990 when his daughter was murdered.
Judge Duryea offered the victim's family another chance to come to the sentencing hearing and speak further of the impact of the crimes on them if they wished.
Sentencing will be held on Friday, February 24th at 8:30 a.m. at the LaBelle Courthouse.
Florida Triple Murder Suspect Testified In Court
Ruby Yolanda Parker, 36, told a 12-member jury in LaBelle, February 15, 2012 that she was held against her will in August 2006 by now deceased Richard Harry Harker, then 35 years old. Parker, living in the Hendry county jail for five and one-half years admits she was with Harker when he killed three Clewiston residents in their home.
But in response to assistant State Attorney Hamid Hunter questions, Parker claimed He made me do it, referring to her complacency while accompanying Harker in the senseless killings of Joey Glenn Whitaker, 52, wife Carolyn Cox Whitaker, 53, and Myrtle Lee Cox, 80, Carolyn's mother August 15, 2006.
Harker, claimed Parker, went to the Whitaker home in the morning to talk to Joey Whitaker about money owed to Harker. But, she said, after about 15 minutes things turned bad as Harker held and gun on the family, and tied them up.
Harker allegedly left the house about 3 p.m. to go to the bank and get cigarettes for the elder Cox, while Parker went to sleep next to the bound woman, at least according to Parker. Parker claims she was told to lay on the bed by Harker. She had no explanation why she didn't use the house phone to call for help other than she thought if the family did what Harker wanted all would be fine.
Parker said she slept one other time during the incident.
After the family was killed, Harker took Whitaker's GMC truck, while Parker took Harker's smaller pickup and went to the Clewiston McDonald's for a breakfast burrito. The two also stopped at Mary Lou's General Store in Montura to pick up a six pack of beer. Parker used the now murdered Myrtle Cox's credit card, signing Cox's name for the beer purchase.
Parker said even though there were a few people, including a child in the store, she didn't ask for help, for fear Harker would kill them.
Later, a pursuit by the Seminole Police and Florida Department Of Law Enforcement ended in the south section of the Big Cypress Indian Reservation on Snake Road when Harker rammed two Seminole Police cruisers at a police roadblock.
As police demanded the suspect exit the vehicle, Richard Harker committed suicide with a single gun shot to the head. Parker was now sitting next to him in Whitaker's stolen truck. A second gun was found in the truck in addition to the one Harker used to commit suicide.
Parker told the jury today she didn't know why Parker would kill the family, but said repeatedly he was forcing her to do everything she was told to do, including take powdered cocaine and crack cocaine for the month leading up to the killings.
He was also taking cocaine most of the day, eating and sleeping little, she said. He had become paranoid, she said. He had me take off all my clothes and sit on the bed, she told the court as she described her last month with Harker. She sobbed as she said Harker would hit her if he didn't like what she said.
Harker always carried a gun usually in the front of his pants, she said, and took away her phone and had control of all my possessions. He controlled everything, and I would just do what he said.
Ironically she also testified about an incident a month before where Harker gave her his gun and he said she could kill him if she wanted to.
The prosecution countered by having her admit there were many times when she was not with Harker, and had access to a phone to call for help, but she didn't do so. Parker said she didn't want to get anyone else involved fearing Harker might kill anyone helping.
She said after Harker killed the first victim, he said, That's taken care of.
Parker said Harker forced her to help clean up the house after the murders with a sock, wiping off fingerprints off surfaces, and cleaning ashtrays she used when smoking. About 4 a.m. they left the house in the two separate trucks, and when questioned about escaping from Harker, said Fleeing was not an option, because she didn't know where she was.
While following Harker, she lost him as he sped through a red light in Clewiston. He turned around she says and was irate because she didn't go through the light after him.
They then rented a cabin at the Big Cypress Reservation, where she says she told him to kill her if he was going to. At the cabin Harker, she claims put two bunk bed mattresses on the floor and wanted to have sex with her, but she refused, enraging him, she says.
Parker says he hit her, pulled her by the hair into the bathroom and gave her a knife to kill herself if she wanted. He laughed and taunted her, according to her testimony today.
The defense has two more witnesses to present to the jury, starting about 9:30 a.m. Thursday. John E. Duryea, Jr. is the presiding judge. Closing arguments are expected either late Thursday or Friday.
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ISSUES: Broward News in Review
Sun Sentinel columnist Michael Mayo discusses the latest news making headlines in Broward County including:
-Seminole Tribe of Florida is considering taking the state to federal court if they cannot renegotiate to extend their revenue-sharing agreement and keep their table games running at their casinos
-Former Tamarac Mayor Beth Flansbaum-Talabisco is being retried on corruption charges
-A reformed ex-con is facing 6 years in prison for violating his parole for smoking marijuana – does the punishment fit?
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