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    • Home
    • The Refuges
      • Egmont Key
      • Passage Key
      • The Pinellas Refuges
    • Get Involved
      • Bird Surveys
      • Bird Stewards
      • Guardhouse Docents
      • Refuge Cleanups
      • Membership
      • Event Calendar
      • Donate
    • Resources
      • Hurricane-Recovery-Update
      • Releasing a Hooked Bird
      • Bird Rescue Organizations
      • Egmont and The Seminole
      • Friends Matter Newsletter
      • Volunteer Forms
    • Shop our Store
    • Save Egmont Key
    • Contact Us
  • Home
  • The Refuges
    • Egmont Key
    • Passage Key
    • The Pinellas Refuges
  • Get Involved
    • Bird Surveys
    • Bird Stewards
    • Guardhouse Docents
    • Refuge Cleanups
    • Membership
    • Event Calendar
    • Donate
  • Resources
    • Hurricane-Recovery-Update
    • Releasing a Hooked Bird
    • Bird Rescue Organizations
    • Egmont and The Seminole
    • Friends Matter Newsletter
    • Volunteer Forms
  • Shop our Store
  • Save Egmont Key
  • Contact Us

Egmont Key & The Seminole

Egmont Key - A Seminole Story

The Tribal Historic Preservation Office of The Seminole Tribe of Florida recently published a detailed history of Egmont Key and The Seminole: https://www.semtribe.com/stof/docs/default-source/default-document-library/egmont-key---a-seminole-story.pdf

A Complicated History

"Since European contact, Egmont Key has played a role in nearly every major U.S. historical period. In the 1800s, the U.S. Army used Egmont Key to imprison Seminole captives, and historians have described conditions on the island as a concentration camp. Over the last decade, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has launched a robust investigation into this period of Seminole removal to piece together and better understand this little-known chapter. But the window to document that history is quickly closing." - From, ISLAND IMPERMANENT Part I: Erosion and Erasure on Egmont Key: https://themarjorie.org/2022/10/03/erosion-and-erasure-on-egmont-key/

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