Chapter 3: Between Bone and Shell
c. 1300 to 1500 CE – Calusa and Inland Tributary Peoples The shell walls gleamed in the late sun.Not from […]
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Interlude: Builders of Circles – The Belle Glade Aesthetic
The engineering, art, and ceremony of the people who shaped the lake without breaking it To live beside Lake Okeechobee
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Chapter 2: Circles in the Marsh
c. 1000 to 1200 CE – Belle Glade Culture The lake rose in rhythm.Not sudden like rain, not wild like
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Interlude: The First Fires – Art and Life of the Archaic People
Culture and community in the age before names Before stories were carved into bone or pressed into clay, they lived
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Chapter 1: The Cradle Before Names
c. 8000 BCE – Archaic Period The lake did not yet know its name.It breathed in silence, stretching shallow arms
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The Echoes of Okeechobee
Between the roots of history and the branches of story lies the water, endless, watching, remembering. Part III brought us
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Chapter 8: Where the Waters Gather
Confluence and Legacy – Lake Okeechobee as the Heart of the Network All roads led here, not of dirt or
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Chapter 7: The Swamp That Sang
Big Cypress Dugout Trails – Seminole Waterways of Resistance The lake heard them even before they arrived, the soft stroke
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Chapter 6: The Hidden Roads of the Red Earth
Ocala to St. Johns Corridor – Timucua Canoe Highways The lake knows their footsteps even from afar, though they rarely
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Chapter 5: The Breath Between Trees
Tamiami Flowways – Edge of the Everglades Here the lake exhales. Not in one great breath, but in many—long and