c. 1700 CE – Belle Glade Descendants and Seminole Refugees The cypress knees rose like prayers from the water.Bent, broken, […]

c. 1300 to 1500 CE – Calusa and Inland Tributary Peoples The shell walls gleamed in the late sun.Not from

The engineering, art, and ceremony of the people who shaped the lake without breaking it To live beside Lake Okeechobee

c. 1000 to 1200 CE – Belle Glade Culture The lake rose in rhythm.Not sudden like rain, not wild like

Culture and community in the age before names Before stories were carved into bone or pressed into clay, they lived

c. 8000 BCE – Archaic Period The lake did not yet know its name.It breathed in silence, stretching shallow arms

Between the roots of history and the branches of story lies the water, endless, watching, remembering. Part III brought us