Musa Isle opened in the late 1910s on the Miami River in Florida as a citrus grove for tourists to grab some juice and produce on their river tour. Soon, a Native American village was opened for tourists to see Seminole and Miccosukee people demonstrating crafts, cooking and other daily tasks. They created dolls and crafts to sell to tourists for ten cents apiece, which gave the Seminole and Miccosukee people a steady income. In addition to crafts, they also performed other demonstrations such as alligator wrestling. Alligator wrestling has a long tradition in Seminole culture as the Seminole and Miccosukee hunted them in the Florida Everglades for generations. Moreover, a person needed to get permission from a Snake clan woman to wrestle an alligator as it was against tradition to taunt animals. According to historian Patsy West, the occupation of “alligator-wrestler” was one of the first listed jobs of for Seminole men and the pay for this work was pretty good. But what about the m...