The longest serving chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe, Billy Cypress, has died. He was 74 years old. The announcement was made on Instagram on Feb. 28 by the tribe’s current chairman Talbert Cypress.

Saturday afternoon, William Osceola stood in front of a thicket of cypress trees and looked out at Lake Miccosukee. His ...

Billy Cypress, who was the longest-serving Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, has died. He spent decades advocating for tribal sovereignty and environmental protection of ...

For generations, the Miccosukee people would make pilgrimages from northern Florida to the Everglades to fish, hunt and hold religious ceremonies. When the Seminole Wars broke out in 1817, the ...

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Billy Cypress, who served for more than 26 years as chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe, died on February 28 at age 74. The tribe did not confirm his cause of death, though sources said he had been ...