The tribe is looking to buy and protect environmentally significant lands, including some that once provided refuge, in a groundbreaking partnership agreement with the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation. The corridor is an ambitious project to connect 18m acres (7.3m hectares) of state and privately owned wilderness into a contiguous, safe habitat for scores of imperilled and roaming species, including black bears, Key deer and Florida panthers.

As observed on too many occasions to count, we are depending on our indigenous peoples to save the environment from our governments’ greed. (Apostrophe deliberately placed after the ‘s’, but yes, the felon’s administration is the greatest transgressor.)