See also: List of mayors of Miami-Dade County Florida. Bookstores Throughout the 1980s the school district was recognized for expertly assimilating wave after wave of new immigrants particularly children from Nicaragua and Haiti and from Cuba's Mariel Boatlift it was highly regarded for its handling of displaced students after the 1982 Miami riot in which 14 schools were badly damaged due to fire and vandalism.[citation needed] the Haitian students who came during the 1980s and 1990s were mostly low income and high school-aged students generally attended Miami Edison High School, Miami Florida Business directory In 2009 fishing was a $6 billion industry employing 60,000 jobs for sports and commercial purposes. . . Miami Florida Business directory, Main article: Indigenous people of the Everglades region, 6.5.2 Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project Roads 4.2 Politics.
. Treasure Coast Kissimmee River, 7 Accidents and incidents 5 Partition proposals The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:. Second in power and number to the Calusa in South Florida were the Tequesta They occupied the southeastern portion of the lower peninsula in modern-day Dade and Broward counties Like the Calusa the Tequesta societies centered on the mouths of rivers Their main village was probably on the Miami River or Little River Spanish depictions of the Tequesta state that they were greatly feared by sailors who suspected them of torturing and killing survivors of shipwrecks With an increasing European presence in south Florida Native Americans from the Keys and other areas began increasing their trips to Cuba Official permission for the immigration of Native Americans from the Florida Keys was granted by Cuban officials in 1704 Spanish priests attempted to set up missions in 1743 but noted that the Tequesta were under assault from a neighboring tribe When only 30 members were left they were removed to Havana a British surveyor in 1770 described multiple deserted villages in the region where the Tequesta lived Common descriptions of Native Americans in Florida by 1820 used only the term "Seminoles". . .
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