Where's Kiva?

From miles of wet grasslands to thick mangrove swamps, the Everglades was an expanse of biodiversity prior to major development interest in the early 1900s. Originally covering over 4,000 square miles, the Everglades encompassed habitats ranging from dense, hot, and dry pine flatwoods to miles of open grasslands to endless tangles of mangrove forests. It was here, within the daunting swamp of the Southwest region of the Everglades, where Seminole, gladespeople, freed or escaped African-American slaves, white European settlers, outlaws, moonshiners, rum- and whiskey-runners all inhabited, adapted, and recreated the natural landscape, it's impossible habitats becoming intangibly ingrained in the establishment and identity of these various peoples. As the “politics of nature” altered the use and perception of the Everglades, these cultures have changed or disappeared, forcibly adapting to a reconfiguration and regulation of the natural landscape forcing a redefinition of their forme...