Reviews for Effect of boat moorings on seagrass beds in the Perth Metropolitan Region

The average rating for Effect of boat moorings on seagrass beds in the Perth Metropolitan Region based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-29 00:00:00 David Lundgren I read this approximately 15-18 years ago after I met with Cynthia White Wolf Parker. Who was a well known speaker on the Native American experience in the early 20th Century. She had been born of White parentage only to be kidnapped by a Native American tribe in TX where her family had lived. She was located and returned by the gov't. to her parents but if I recall correctly she was kidnapped again and remained. She married a man within that tribe. I being fascinated by the people's who were once residents of FL. Though I graduated and was a "Florida Seminole", I learned next to nothing in High School and zilch in College. I started digging. Most of the tribes that once resided in Florida were either decimated in the various wars when Florida was a Spanish and later American colony, those who remained merged to preserve their way of life and survival. Little material has been published in the last forty or so years, this one is one that I was able to locate. I had no idea what I would learn. My memory isn't to hot, after a traumatic brain injury but I do remember a few highlights. As the slaves of the planters and landowners fled slavery's cruelty, some came south. The native people's were willing to allow them to participate in the community with some limitations. They were never considered equal. They were allowed to marry Seminole women particularly if there was a shortage of men from battle losses and participated in many ways, they were never fully assimilated. Many of these black Seminoles moved to Central Texas after slavery was ended. Years later when U.S. government awarded monies to tribe members compensation in a suit brought against the government for failure to honor a treatie(s?). Those who were part of the black Seminole group were denied the funds received by the tribe! To say that animosity and hostility grew among these members who were never fully equal is an understatement. I was deeply troubled by this arrangement and wonder who those involved sleep at night.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-11 00:00:00 Eric Vincent Loved it. From the birth of John Horse in Florida until 56 years after his death in Mexico, this is the little-known story of the African people who resisted the brutal slavery of the American Sout. People who fought along side, and sometimes on their own against the American army and their Indian allies for their freedom and land they could call their own, for themselves and their descendants. Their story caries them through the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Seminole Wars (the longest guerilla war in American history, sporadically from 1817 until 1858) and the Indian wars on the Texas frontier. They fought against the American army in Florida, escaped reenslavement in Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma)and Texas to Mexico where they fought for the Mexican government against the Apaches and Commanches. Their reputation as trackers and fighters was so admired they were later recruited by the American army to return to the United States and enlist as scouts for the army units stationed along the Mexican border. Although they won numerous awards, including several Medals of Honor, they were mistreated by the American government, denied the land they were promised, brutalized by the locals Texans, and eventually lived in extreme poverty at starvation level. Some of them went back to Mexico where they were finally given a land grant to some land in Mexico just west of Del Rio, Texas. John Horse died in Mexico after pleading with the government in Mexico City for the land that was promised them. Some of their descendants still remain there to this day. Still other descendants live in and around Brackettville, Texas, where there is a Seminole Negro Scout cemetery. The graves of three Medal of Honor winners are there in the desert. Spoiler Alert: this story does not have a happy ending. It is not for those who have difficulty facing some of the true incidents from the bad side of America.