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The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is working to preserve Lake Miccosukee, one of the state's last untouched prairie lakes.

This lake and the surrounding land are the ancestral homelands of the Miccosukee people, who were displaced to South Florida.

While development is not an immediate threat, officials and the tribe are acting now to protect the culturally and environmentally significant area from future growth.

A few miles to the east of the Florida Capitol lies one of the last, if not the last, untouched prairie lake in the state.

And the is trying to keep it that way.

“The Everglades is a really important refuge that saved the Miccosukee, but this is where the Miccosukee are from,” said Edward Ornstein, deputy counsel for the tribe.

The lake, about 5

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