The city has a habit of paving over its ancient history, experts said, as Indigenous activists voice their opposition to a development on a Tequesta site.
According to WTVJ, the development was planned to comprise three towers, including 1,400 residential units, as well as offices, hotel and retail space. Two of the towers will be built, with part of the land designated as historic and objects found on the site preserved, though exactly in what way is unclear.
The occupants were Tequesta, a now-defunct tribe whose territory covered a swath of South Florida until the middle of the 18th century. The frequency in which such sites cropped up along the Miami River suggests that the area might have been the focal point of the civilization. "There's a debate, if you will, as to whether the Tequesta and the ancient people of Florida are ancestors of the Seminole. The Seminole certainly think so," Frank said.
He said the academic consensus a century ago was that the Seminole were entirely newcomers, and argued:"What developers often do is they lean on this older scholarship to say that the Seminoles and the Miccosukees don't have any legitimate say because these aren't their people.":"In keeping with the sanctity of all burial sites and the cultural sensitivity of all Seminoles, the Seminole Tribe of Florida prefers to not publicly discuss the burial places of its ancestors.
"The main controversy seems to involve how the archaeological finds will be handled in the future," he wrote."While we are still awaiting final archaeological reports, the early consensus among city and state officials and advisors is that the findings, to date, do not merit preservation on the site. This means the artifacts that are found are not required to stay in the ground.
"We're making decisions [as to] what to do before we know what the site actually is, and that makes it very hard," he said."Once the buildings are built, it's too late. They're not going to knock the buildings down to preserve something—that ship has sailed."
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