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Also, the first "Seminole Villages" attractions were 100% outsiders making tourist bait. Later the Seminoles began their own such enterprises, but the boom came from outside and they were hired actors on a payroll. It is a fascinating, surprisingly modern, compelling, beautiful story of a native people - really just a remnant of 200 left to die in the swamp - who took what they had and leveraged themselves into the modern world. They were almost destroyed 3 times, and still, there they are.