Indian Mound Cemetery - Notable People Interred at Indian Mound Cemetery

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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
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“One is twice as willing to jump in after a person who has fallen into the water when there are people present who do not dare to do so.”
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“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
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“Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians “had lost a great deal.””
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“A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder’s gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
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“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”
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