Big Cypress Reservation
Big Cypress Indian Reservation | |
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![]() Location of Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida. | |
Land | Vereinigte Staaten |
State | Florida |
County | Hendry County, Broward County |
Regierung | |
• Governing body | Seminole Tribe of Florida |
Area | |
• Total | 81.972 sq mi (212.306 km2) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 591 |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Website | Seminole Tribe of Florida: Big Cypress |
The Big Cypress Indian Reservation is one of five of the reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County in southern Florida in the United States. The reservation lies south of Lake Okeechobee and just north of Alligator Alley. It is governed by the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Tribal Council, and is the largest of the five Seminole reservations in the state. The land area is 81.972 sq mi (212.306 km²), including the 12th-largest cattle operation in the country.[1] A resident population of 591 persons was reported in the 2010 census. The reservation is also called "Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation" or "Big Cypress Reservation". It lies adjacent to the north side of the largest section of the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in western Broward County.
Tourism and entertainment
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The tribe owns two tourist attractions here: Billie Swamp Safari, and Big Cypress Entertainment Complex.
The American rock band Phish held their millennium concert at the reservation from December 30, 1999 to January 1, 2000. With 85,000 people in attendance, it was the earliest and largest sold-out millennium concert. Phish performed three sets of music on the 30th, an afternoon set on the 31st, and an unprecedented "Midnight To Dawn" set, which ran from 11:50pm until sunrise on January 1, 2000.
Recent history
The Langerado Music Festival was held there March 6–9, 2008. Headlined by R.E.M., the festival was largely a success, but was marred by the death of a concertgoer leaving the show. Constance Leach, a 36-year-old Native American, was killed when a charter bus and pickup truck collided on Snake Road just north of Alligator Alley about 1:15 a.m. Traffic crawled along the dark, two-lane Snake Road for hours Sunday morning as officers investigated.
References
- ^ "Red Barn, Glades County, Florida", National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, accessed 26 December 2011
- Eda.gov - [1]
- Big Cypress Reservation, Florida United States Census Bureau