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Billie was born “In my time,” Billie remembers, “they said N in the Everglades, about even if I hold a pencil, they take my hand TE and slap it away.” Billie never learned to read N a mile off Tamiami Trail, O or write. He says English can never capture C in 1945. For years, that the true meaning of his language, i:laponki. Bwas all he knew of the world. Around age 14, Billie got a job planting toma- Children planted pumpkins and toes with his grandparents for 50 cents a day. PULP | corn, hunted deer or raccoons, and “We just, like, survived at that time, because we had to change our entire way of life,” he says. stuck their feet into alligator holes In the mid-1900s, the U.S. government en- to see if turtles were hiding inside. couraged indigenous people to organize and | NEWS | | NEWS No limbs were lost. Life was good. develop constitutions. According to author Y Winona LaDuke, some of South Florida’s in- DA One day, when Billie was about 5 years digenous people in 1957 opted to form the Sem- old, the kids went “further and further and inole Tribe and become federally recognized. Photo by Deirdra Funcheon ran onto [the highway]. Chain gangs were “Each person who signed up got 25 bucks and Still, Billie resisted, maintaining instead Walk across Florida with Billie on March 20. cleaning up the side of the road. We looked became eligible for various federal benefits.” that a treaty signed by President James Polk at them — white and brown and black doing Another group formed the Mic- in the 1800s remains in effect and grants na- memorated or celebrated. They were nothing it — we didn’t even know what we run into!” cosukee Tribe separately in 1962. tives the rights to all of Southwest Florida. more than cold-blooded, savage killers.” GE | NIGHT+ A Scared, the kids hid in a bush until their Billie, however, found absurd the con- “All of the people on the reservation want This year, in fighting a bill that would T S parents came home. “We said, ‘We had no cept of needing to be recognized. “The seed to be white.” To some, he says, “it’s more allow amateur collectors to keep ar- idea what that was!’ They told us, ‘OK, get in come from corn; pumpkins come from important — the dollar, the nice car, nice tifacts, he wrote, “We tell you: Do not the car.’ They took us to Miami, and we found pumpkins,” he says. “Those things know house, restaurants — than God’s gift.” disturb the Spirits of the Water.” out we are not the only ones living here.” who they are and what they are supposed Years went by. Billie did odd jobs, married, Last month, his priority was object- That’s how Billie, now age 71, learned to do. We already know who we are.” had children, and divorced. (His ex-wife suc- ing to the Sabal Trail gas pipeline, pro- there was a world beyond the swamp. In “I remember the political changes well,” cessfully sued him for child support in 2010 in posed to run through 12 Florida counties. the years that followed, he witnessed the says Billie. There were “big meetings and big Orange County, where Billie testified in court, The prophecy has told him that part of founding of the Seminole and Miccosukee people from Washington there.” He says his “We don’t recognize the United States.”) Florida is going to break off and sink. He tribes. Today, he and just a few dozen oth- people were mis- “I’m a private person,” he says. But “one predicts an explosion along the gas line. ers stand out for having refused to join ei- l ed. “They thought day the message came… You are going to need He says he feels alone in his struggle, but ther one. They call themselves the Original “IF THEY they were securing to speak. The people are destroying nature.” his niece Betty Osceola says there are “hun- Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal RECOGNIZE ME, their rights to live Across the Atlantic Ocean lived Shannon dreds” who have foregone tribal member- People (sometimes called “the indepen- as they always had. Larsen, a self-described American hippie ship.