Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction, Seminole -- Fiction, Race relations -- Fiction, Seminole, Race Relations, Everglades (Fla.), Fiction 

"In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp lives Charlie Jumper, an eighty-six-year-old Seminole Indian. Unlike the younger Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways. Their simple existence is suddenly threatened when a large tract of swamp is bought by a development corporation and Charlie is told that he will have to move. From his youth Charlie remembers the slaughter of egrets and alligators by the white man and the logging of the giant cypress. Rather than surrender the land that is his life to this final indignity, Charlie decides to fight back. After his best friend is killed while trying to sabotage construction equipment, Charlie gives up the uneven contest. Realizing that there can be no compromise with the white man, who destroys all he touches, Charlie leaves his family and flees into the swamp, seeking the lost island known in Seminole legends as Forever Island."--Back cover.