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"...The government wanted to pay us money to shut up. We wanted land set aside for us and to be left alone. No one in Washington would listen to us. So when Castro took over , I went over there and smoked some cigars with him and Che Guevara and I asked them: 'Do you recognize the Miccosukee Tribe?' Castro said he did. He said that if the United States would not give us a place to live, we were welcome to go over there and he would make room for us. When we got back, there were all kinds of phone calls from Washington. The government started dealing with us seriously then.''

 -- Buffalo Tiger, of the Miccosukee Indian tribe, December 1997