The reservation has a land area of approximately 146 square kilometers or 36,000 acres[1] and a 2000 census resident population of 566 persons.

The Florida guide referred to a "Seminole Village" in 1939, south of the town of Brighton, on a 35,660-acre reservation: Here approximately 100 Indians are employed on CCC projects in road building, fencing, water development, and revegetation.

All this group are Cow Creek, or Muskogee, differing in language from the Big Cypress Indians of the west coast, who are Mikasuki.

Reservation Indians farm the center of cleared hammocks and herd some 800 head of Hereford and Angus cattle on a subsistence basis.

Both children and adults receive instruction in the village school, which is equipped with modern facilities, including a community workroom and shop, men's and women's showers, and a laundry.