{"id":367016,"date":"2025-12-31T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=367016"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:15:51","slug":"statement-chairman-of-miccosukee-tribe-on-veto-of-homelands-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2025\/12\/31\/statement-chairman-of-miccosukee-tribe-on-veto-of-homelands-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Chairman of Miccosukee Tribe on veto of homelands bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
Statement: Chairman of Miccosukee Tribe on veto of homelands bill<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, December 31, 2025<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of a December 31, 2025, statement from Chairman Talbert Cypress of the Miccosukee Tribe<\/a> in connection with the veto of H.R.504<\/a>, the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act. President Donald Trump vetoed the bill, which would add an area known as Osceola Camp<\/a> to the Miccosukee Reservation in Florida.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has long supported President Trump\u2019s\r\ncommitment to Everglades restoration, for the benefit of America\u2019s public lands. The late\r\nChairman Billy Cypress, who served for 27 years as the chief executive of our tribe and\r\npassed away earlier this year, enjoyed a friendship with President Trump and was an early\r\nsupporter of his campaign in 2016.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Tribe has a constitutional duty to protect and defend the Everglades ecosystem, our\r\ntraditional homelands. We have never sought to obstruct the President\u2019s immigration\r\nagenda. Instead, we have taken action to ensure sufficient environmental due diligence\r\nis performed to protect federal restoration investments. We were disappointed to learn\r\nthat the White House vetoed a measure intended to mitigate restoration impacts on a\r\nTribal village.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Osceola Camp, a historic Miccosukee community within Everglades National Park,\r\nfaces serious flood and environmental risks. The measure reflected years of bipartisan\r\nwork and was intended to clarify land status and support basic protections for tribal\r\nmembers who have lived in this area for generations\u2014before the roads and canals were\r\nbuilt, and before Everglades National Park was created. It was not about special\r\ntreatment, but about public safety, environmental stewardship, and honoring long-\r\nrecognized tribal interests.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Tribe remains fully committed to continuing collaboration with Congress, the Florida\r\ndelegation, and our federal partners to restore the Everglades in the interest of millions\r\nof Americans who live in South Florida.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n Chairman Talbert Cypress","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has long supported President Trump\u2019s commitment to Everglades restoration, for the benefit of America\u2019s public lands,” said Chairman Talbert Cypress.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20,13,1,14,31],"tags":[5366,170,75,5056,255,5963,697,186,1075,545,5053],"class_list":["post-367016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","category-press-release","tag-119th","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-everglades","tag-florida","tag-h-r-504","tag-immigration","tag-land-into-trust","tag-miccosukee","tag-nps","tag-talbert-cypress","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30\/IndianzComDefaultImage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1xtC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367063,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367016\/revisions\/367063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}