Betty Osceola Tour of the Everglades

Partial Transcript: I wanted to stop in this area because a lot of people aren't familiar with what the Everglades looked like historically. When they see all these cattails and sawgrass, there's very thick vegetation. They think this is how it's supposed to be.

Partial Transcript: And there's—if you go on the internet, you can find charts of how that plume has grown over time, where that vegetation is starting to fill in and get clogged up with cattails and willow and a whole bunch of things because of all that chemicals coming in and helping it grow.

Partial Transcript: Here, you see the open area with the shorter grass and all these lily pads.

Partial Transcript: I saw a great blue heron, and you saw an egret. But you should be seeing more than that. So, you know, we asked the question, you know, why is water important?

Partial Transcript: That's the osprey, you know because it forages at night.

Partial Transcript: Well, you know, one of the things that we do to educate about the Everglades is that we bring out not only our tribal children but there's different schools that come out

Partial Transcript: And then, you know, over time, as Florida started getting more developed. And the rights of how we are to hunt fish, you know, our culture was starting to be, you know. The outside world was telling us, you can't do this. You can't do that. You have to conform to this. The people started trying to organize to protect their rights.

Partial Transcript: What they told you wasn't what they meant, that they would say one thing and they wanted something else, and their word wasn't their bond.