I have been working with Native Americans in the tourism industry for two decades. My first forays in this industry were in South Florida, home of the Miccosukee and Seminole people. Today I work at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village in South Dakota, where the ancestors of the Mandan people lived. Despite the huge geographical gap, there is similarity to how visitors imagine how these tribes may have lived.
The Miccosukee and the Seminole were originally from the area that became Alabama,