In many ways, the flashy new building is a fitting symbol of Seminole defiance. Following centuries of persecution and displacement, the tribe now has just over 4,000 members, scattered across six sites around the state and headquartered in the 500-acre Hollywood reservation, where the Hard Rock hotel now stands. The hotel is the work of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a Native American group whose population on the peninsula numbered 200,000, when Spanish colonisers first arrived in the 1500s. And it is all the more remarkable given that it has been built by a community that was almost hounded from existence. It is an unlikely thing to find standing in the middle of this non-place of parking lots, dive bars and pawn shops.
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