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Hello Sue,
Thank you for your interest in an authentic Seminole patchwork skirt. All of our skirts are made to order. If you are not comfortable ordering online, I would be happy to help you over the phone.
Please visit us when you are in Florida. Call ahead of time to make your reservation at Billie Swamp Safari, or the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. I’m sure it will be worth the trip.
Melissa Sherman
Communications Department

To Whom It May Concern,
Albert Wesley Brewer and I, Matthew Bruce Aschliman, wish to honor you with our respect. We, being citizens of the U.S., wish to give your tribe the utmost respect and honor. Both Albert and I are middle-age white men, although Albert has Native American ancestry.
I was just made aware of your history against the U.S. insofar as your fight to maintain your tribe’s existence. As I understand, your tribe did not ever surrender to the U.S., or sign any treaty to make peace with your aggressors.
The strength your forefathers exhibited, and as I know you still do, is true to the foundations of what I have considered the epitome of life in the U.S., your tribe did not surrender. Your tribe did, and has not succumbed to the pressures of another government that has wrongfully oppressed your people. For this, we respect and honor you.
I have given my heart to a woman of the Hupa Tribe of Northern California. Through her struggles, I have appreciated the plight of her ancestors. And though this appreciation of her heritage, I have also gained much respect for the tribes that were living in harmony before others arrived. We admire your tribe’s courage and perseverance.
While serving the U.S. in the Navy aboard the USS Belleau-Wood LHA-3 in 1993, Albert met one of the members of your tribe.
He was deeply impressed with your tribe’s history. Albert, although of a higher rank, gave this individual a formal salute multiple times, to the amazement of his fellow officers. We wish to impress upon your tribe that we are grateful that your culture lives on. Both of us wish to impress upon you our great respect and admiration.
Albert Wesley Brewer and Matthew Bruce Aschliman

Dear Editor,
Our nephew Carlo W. Baker, Jr. is missing and was last seen in Haines, FL in 2000. He is a member of the Winnebago Tribe in Nebraska. If you have any information, please contact Carol Luna at (402) 878-3137. The address is: PO Box 687, Winnebago, NE 68071.
Carol Luna
Winnebago, NE

Dear Editor,
I just returned home to Tennessee from vacationing in South Florida. During my visit I went to the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. I really enjoyed the museum and Billie Swamp Safari. Both facilities had a wealth of information.
I hope to see the reservation expand its tourism development on the reservation. A motel/hotel would be nice for those who are not brave enough to sleep out at one of the chickees along the glades at Billie Swamps.
A public citrus stand would be great since I was in the market for some citrus fruit to bring home with me. I would have rather supported the Seminole community in my purchases of fruit. I am very happy for the Seminole Tribe and wish the tribe all the best in their endeavors and expansion.
I hope to be able to come back some day. It was a very pleasant fun experience visiting the reservation. I respect the Seminole Tribe for its conquests and continuing conquests.
Jinae

Dear Editor,
I am a born and raised Floridian. My grandfather, Joseph W. Young, is the founder of Hollywood, FL. I went to South Broward High and Miramar High Schools. I am incarcerated at Lowell Correctional Institution, Annex P.O.Box147, J4/4104L Lowell, and FL. 32663.
I am looking for Indians to write to. I am very homesick. I know Jimmy Hank “The Tank” Osceola, also some of the Tommies, Billies, and Osceolas. Maybe they don’t remember me anymore, but I would like to write to people that are interested in tribal stories, folklore, and the Seminole Wars, also Christians and spiritual people.
Please write, especially “The Tank.” I am also an artist and writer. I would like a subscription to Southwest Art, Wildlife Art, and Western Art Magazines. My father told me that great-great-grandfather was married to a Blackfoot or a coastal tribe member in the Washington – Seattle area, he was a whaling captain. I would like to research this just to know the truth. Also, I would like a subscription to The Seminole Tribune.
I would like to offer art and articles. Also, I am looking for a subscription application to Southwest Art, Wildlife Art, and Western Cowboy art magazines so I can get a one-year subscription to each. It is so important to me. My friend Mrs. Doctor told me that those magazines were in your office waiting room. Please send them subscriptions.

May God hold you in the palm of his hand,
Pat Hale #0153942
J4/4104L
Lowell Correctional Institution Annex
P.O. Box 147
Lowell, FL. 32263

Dear Editor,
I have never been to your casino, but plan on coming soon. Can you answer my questions on playing your slots? I am a novice and want to come prepared, if need be.
Do your slots take tokens that you provide? Or do your slots take money directly?
If your slots take money directly, do you provide coin change, or should I come with coin change?
On that issue, does the majority of your slots take only dollars or do they also taken quarters, and lesser coins?
I don't mean to badger you with questions, but I don't want to be disappointed when I arrive and find that I needed to bring the right change. I appreciate your help.

Sincerely,
Vivian
Pembroke Pines

We don't have slots but rather TAD's. They look and play like slot machines and have the same titles as in Las Vegas and New Jersey. The difference is the winner is determined by the outcome of a bingo game as displayed on the screen along with the reels. No coins are utilized; it's paper money in, paper ticket out. Either play the ticket in another machine or cash the winning tickets out at the cage or through a TAD attendant.

Edward Jenkins - Director of Gaming/Compliance and Regulations

Dear Editor,
I am trying to locate the schedule for Bingo at you Tampa facility. Could you please send me the web address to go to or a schedule?
Thank you
kpacoangel@aol.com

Unfortunately no on line schedules exist. If you could e-mail me a mailing address I will gladly have someone send programs to you.

John Fontana
General Manager, Tampa Hard Rock Hotel & Casino