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Miccosukee
thumb|Miccosukee sisters in Everglades City, sometime between 1933 and 1960
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians (/ˌmɪkəˈsuki/, MIH-kə-SOO-kee) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Florida. They are Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands and related to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades
Chickee
thumb|Mother and children at a camp on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, 1949
thumb|An Indian camp with a sleep chickee, cooking chickee, and eating chickee
Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides. Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings.
The chickee style of architecture—palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame—was adopted by Seminoles during the Second (1835–1842) and Third (1855–1858) Seminole W
Miccosukee Indian Reservation
Native American homeland in Florida, US