A compromise reached this week will allow the Miccosukee Indians to build most of the new homes they want along the northern edge of Everglades National Park, ending a long-simmering dispute between ...

When it comes to warding off legal inquiries, civil lawsuits and even criminal investigations, the Miccosukee Indian tribe repeatedly invokes sovereign immunity. If jurisprudence is a game of chess, ...

MIAMI -- A century and a half after soldiers chased them deep into the Everglades, the Miccosukee Indians are still at war. This time, their weapons include lawyers, consultants and expert witnesses, ...

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ronald Dresnick added the Miccosukee Indian tribe after the fact to a lawsuit that resulted in a jury award against two tribe members in a drunken-driving traffic death. The ...

Negotiators on Monday were pounding out details of an agreement to rescue the Everglades from farmers’ pollution, but the emerging pact drew fire from environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of ...

A Miami-Dade judge gave back almost $5 million to the Miccosukee Tribe on Wednesday, money he had previously ordered paid toward a longstanding judgment owed to the family of a woman killed by a ...

The Miccosukee Indians persuaded a House committee Wednesday to give them more control over their civil and criminal matters, despite pleas from sheriffs and prosecutors that such action could ...

Class II slots play an instant game of bingo, and display the results via both a bingo card and on the slot display board that patrons see when they play any other machine. Nick Sortal “What’s up with ...

An IRS investigation into the Miccosukee Tribe gained critical momentum Wednesday when a federal judge signaled that he was prepared to order the tribe to release financial records that could reveal a ...

Michael Frank, a 56-year-old Miccosukee Tribe member, points to Bone Island, a small tree-covered hammock in the Everglades that got its name during the Seminole Wars of the 1800s. When Frank’s ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, Lee Tiger performed with Steve Winwood, the Allman Brothers and other rock legends. Tiger says he was able to avoid the hard drugs that destroyed so many other musicians of the ...