1959. Buffalo Tiger was the Chief of the Miccosukee Tribe. The leader was born Buford Ashley Osceola in South Florida in 1920. Evident from his given name, Native American tribes embraced the Anglicization of their peoples. Treaties were signed and animosities set aside.
Incumbent upon his leadership role, the Chief's main task was preservation of culture. The man's lifeline paralleled continued erosion of the reservation. Developers, with cash to invest, lobbied politicians successfully to push Seminole and Miccosukee tribes into an ever decreasing and concentrated area.
Buffalo Tiger's long-term failure was driven by not recognizing Carpet Bagging developers. Businessmen were flush with cash from illicit activities; such as drug and human trafficking. Exacerbating challenges, of which the Chief was forced to confront, were high-level politicians participating in, and benefitting financially from, illegal activities. None dare challenge developers for fear of being exposed themselves.
Tribal elders were successful in keeping most adolescent members free from the same drugs plaguing White and Black communities. Measures to remain drug-free were not enough to shield first-nations from societal decline driven by illicit profits.
Savages, as tribes across the country were branded, were only guilty of fighting against nature's destruction. Native Americans understood unique and individual connections to greater forces within the universe. Buffalo Tiger knew continued degradation of lands limited tribe-members' ability to express themselves as sovereign beings.
Continued encroachment on tribal lands made it easy for the astute to visualize a day when the group would be completely eliminated. Insatiable evil purposefully consumed all they had yet to dominate.
At thirty-nine years of age the Chief envisioned continued degradation along the timeline of his remaining life. He knew something must be done. Meetings with corrupt American politicians were useless. Even if he found an honest member of Congress, to which he could voice concerns, control of government had been secured by those determined to destroy the Constitution.
Protection of Native American tribes was not a concern for Americans living outside the reservation. At best, they were totally ignorant of plight suffered by neighbors. At worst, it was a "better them than me" circumstance.
Chief Buffalo Tiger knew of the attempted coup of F.D.R.'s administration by those pushing the Business Plot. Only one man stood in its way.
Major General Smedley Butler detailed the plan, in which he was invited to participate, before Congress in 1934. His actions offered the tribal leader inspiration; one man could make a difference. The testimony made an impression on the teenager.
Unchecked fascism within borders threatened complete control of the country, and its citizens, by those considering themselves worthy elite.
Governance by few was fabricated upon the destruction of many.
There was a single course of action the Chief conceived. It became incumbent upon him to seek help from abroad. As the leader of a nation of people, he must garner support of other national leaders.
A fresh struggle for freedom from rampant corruption was being fought not far away; in nearby Cuba. Chief Buffalo Tiger looked upon Fidel Castro as a man determined to free his people from governmental oppression arising from profiteering by high-ranking officials. He was seen as a leader who'd be sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans.
What the Miccosukee chief hadn't realized was the Cuban leader was a mere puppet of the CIA. The intelligence agency was a conception of, and controlled by, global elite since its inception in 1947. Castro's only real purpose on the global stage was to sew discontent. A stressed population was a compliant population. The Cuban attorney was paid handsomely for disregarding innate virtues.
Well intentioned was the Chief's desire to build a coalition of nations. Freedom for the few was envisioned as spreading to all of humanity; or so he thought. Control of humanity had already been surreptitiously wrested from citizenry. Offering figureheads upon which to focus hatred and derision, men like Castro and Hitler kept global elite safely in the shadows.
Decades elapsed. The Chief passed away. All of South Florida's population succumbed to the psychological minimization of the individual.
The number of leaders embracing individual sovereignty, bestowed by God, continually decreased.