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MORTON H. SILVER
LEGAL COUNSEL
To the
SOVEREIGN
MICCOSUKEE SEMINOLE
NATION
(1951 - 2004)
Excerpt from the Florida Bar
News,
June 15, 2000 (p. 37, col. 1)
(Read more - Scanned Image
Archive)
Morton H. Silver
secured
United States recognition
for the Everglades Miccosukee Tribe of Seminole
Indians, January 27, 1958; (Congressional
Record Senate Hearings-95th Congress, 2nd
Session on S2000 March 2, 1978), pp. 336, 337,
408; and
Florida
recognition on July 30, 1957, pp.
309-314.
Mr. Silver is also responsible for securing
International recognition
for the Sovereign Miccosukee Seminole Nation by
treaty in 1959. (Bob Reno,
Miami Herald July 28, 1959); p.1A;
Roy Bongartz,
The Saturday
Evening Post February 1, 1964; pp.
62-65; Pam Johnson, "The One-Man Indian
War...of Morton Silver"
The Village Post,
July 1966, pp. 14-15; Peter Matthiessen,
Indian
Country (New York: Viking Press,
1984), p.38; Harry Kersey, An Assumption
of Sovereignty (University Nebraska
Press. 1996), pp. 182-184: The Life and
Writing of Jane Wood
Reno (Attorney General Janet Reno's
mother),
The Hell With Politics,
(Atlanta, Peachtree Publishers, 1994), pp.
105-117.
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