Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum

Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki is a museum of Seminole culture and history, located on the Big Cypress Reservation in Hendry County, Florida.

Holdings include: The library of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum has 375 linear feet of shelves.

[8] The purpose of the conservation program is to examine, document, and treat any artifact that belongs to the Seminole heritage and culture.

[13] This specific division includes tours and programs that support students (and other interested individuals) in learning and understanding the Seminole peoples' culture and history.

The division is not just limited to onsite tours and programs- it also has online accessible educational resources that teachers and students in the classroom can utilize.

The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum hosts the American Indian Arts Celebration (AIAC), where visitors can "enjoy traditional and contemporary arts and crafts, dance, music, food, special presentations, wildlife shows, Native vendors," and more.

The signs discuss what the plant or animal was, its name in the Maskókî and Mikisúkî languages, and what the Seminole Tribe used it for.

He was also a US Army veteran and college graduate with an English master's degree and post-graduate work in History.

When the Spanish arrived in Florida, they met the Miccosukee people, which were the ancestors of the Seminole Tribe.

When Andrew Jackson became the seventh president, he signed into law a policy that would force all Indians that were living East of the Mississippi river to move West.

The American soldiers nicknamed Abiaki "The Devil" because he was a great leader, strategist, and spy along with being a healer (medicine man).

After the wars and a great loss of native people, Abiaki led the remaining two hundred Seminole Indians into the deep wetlands of Florida.

[18] This native group survived the persecution that was occurring at that time, and today, they strive as their own community with more than five thousand tribal members.

Location of where the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum
Exhibition of Seminole clothing, dolls, and accessories, National Museum of the American Indian . These textiles would be the types of artifacts that conservation would care for.
Exhibit on Indigenous North American stickball , a sport similar to modern day lacrosse .
Boardwalk to the entrance of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum