Native Bidaské: The Growing Fight Against Alligator Alcatraz
A detention center was built in the Florida Everglades—just 900 feet from sacred Miccosukee ceremonial grounds. There was no environmental review. No tribal consultation. Just fences, floodlights, and federal funding.
This week on Native Bidaské, Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress joins us to expose what’s happening at the site dubbed Alligator Alcatraz—and why his tribe is suing the federal government.
Why is the Everglades so significant to Miccosukee tribal members?
What are the environmental concerns about the detention center?
What are the living conditions like for detainees?
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@tonis8131
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
Good luck with this fight to Chairman Talbert Cypress and the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples. That prison has got to go! We'll share the news and look for updates. Thank you both.
@STELLABeauty
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
Not getting news coverage on this?!! Thank u for updating.
@pennyscribner5928
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
It is horrific. What can be done??
@jdcjr50
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
Thank you.
@spiketv549
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
To me this is a reminder of Removal concentration camps. I do think about the way Seminoles fought Removal, and I have to believe, have to know, we are putting an end to what is going on.
I live not far from Sixes, in Georgia, and I am not sure anyone knows exactly where it was. What is going on is a reminder of the way concentration camps 'popped up' and then disappeared. When I think about the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the wall of the Oval Office, Chump has asked for anything at all. I don't think he is that bright, but that was a declaration of war.
@lythandrel
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 am
Thank you for bringing up how the everglades is responsible for replenishing the aquifers in south florida. Too many people think the everglades is everglades national park only, but the historic flow starts up by lake okeechobee. My question is why haven’t the seminole signed onto the lawsuit, as there are seminole living amongst the miccosukee, and this affects their drinking water, even if they’re on a reservation that had urban or suburban space grow around it.
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