Photographs depicting alligator roping and wrestling, 1921-1927.
From Photographs : series 39.; Henry Coppinger, Jr., made alligator wrestling popular. Seminoles learned from him, then made the ritual their own. Tony Tommie (Panther clan) was headman for the Seminole village at Musa Isle. (Headmen were tribal spokesmen, but not chiefs.)
1927
Photographs depicting Forward to the Soil publicity event, February 5, 1927.
From Photographs : series 30.; The Miami Chamber of Commerce staged a publicity event, Forward to the Soil, to promote sales of reclaimed land, and which took place on the Roselawn Tract, near Hialeah. Without tribal consent, Musa Isle headman Tony Tommie participated in the ceremony, made peace and handed over the Everglades to whites. The rest of the tribe and the U.S. government did recognize his actions.
1927
Conditions of the Florida Seminoles hearings before the Committee on Investigation of the Indian Service, House of Representatives.
(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.
1917
