Alligator Alcatraz: Some History

By Guest Author Named Jack

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It matters little what the place is called. President Donald Trump thinks Alligator Alcatraz to be a whimsical enough name. Even Joe Biden got used to Bidenomics.

I'll give you a few brief facts. The large, well-maintained airstrip is on the border line of Miami-Dade County that runs east, on to the Atlantic Ocean, and Collier County, that runs west to the Gulf at Naples, Florida. The isolated, uninhabited air strip has no buildings or traffic control tower or any permanent party staff or services. It was used only for occasional National Guard training exercises. When those training sessions took place, the Guard brought all their own tents and supplies and portable towers. The area is left completely clean and unoccupied for the rest of the year. Go to google maps to see what it looked like a few weeks ago, before the conversion started to make it a holding area for deporting illegal aliens.

As for the protesters who showed up, out in the middle of nowhere in this awful Florida summer heat and humidity and near daily super cell thunderstorms with vicious lightening, they are made up mainly of just mom and pop dumb heads who hate Trump (picture "no kings" sign carriers on Flag Day, June 14th.), and maybe some (Soros) hit men and antifa operatives. However, the mainstream press is focusing most of their cameras on the colorful people of a couple Indian communities that have tribal outposts within a couple hundred miles of the location. No humans live anywhere near this rarely used training site.

One tribe that most non-Floridians seem to think belong here are the Seminoles. The word Seminole means, "visitors from the north." These were different small groups of Indians from the Carolinas and above who drifted down to Florida, after the huge pre–Columbian Indian tribes began to die off after the Spanish arrived in Florida in the early 1500's. It took a couple of centuries to complete the migration and take over. 

What had started as disorganized mostly agrarian Indians from the north, congealed into what are now The Seminoles. Many were probably Cherokee who did not want to be forced to move by the US government to Oklahoma, and ran off to the south, instead of participating in the "Trail of Tears" forced march to the west. Surprise, surprise, the ancestors of most present-day Seminoles were NOT native to Florida.

The pre-Columbian tribe that was the largest and fiercest in all of Florida were the Calusa. If you would care to read their long descent from fierce to extinct, there are books written by local historians. It was a sad, sad story of many thousands of Calusa natives being reduced to a handful of hopeless and sick individuals who were mercifully moved to Cuba by bleeding heart Spanish missionaries (see NGO's).

The other tribe who has sent well costumed spokes men and women to the protest line is the Miccosukee. I have not researched much about the tribe, but they may claim birth rite to one of the other pre-Columbian tribes who lived in Florida under the thumb or slightly subservient of the mighty Calusa. The fate of all the pre-Columbian tribes was bad, with the European smallpox and Spanish oppression, followed by new tribes moving to Florida to fill the vacuum. However, some of the real original Florida Indian tribes did survive in small, isolated areas. So, be careful how much credence you give to these "native" or "indigenous" claimers when they speak of these being THEIR lands. They are probably being used by woke press to undermine Trump.

Fifth through seventh generation (and beyond) white, black and Spanish Florida settlers have been here longer than the forebears of many present Seminoles.

That is a brief synopsis of what is now called Alligator Alcatraz.