The modern Indigenous communities that claim connection to Florida — the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe, and others — are the contemporary expression of the long Indigenous history of the peninsula, even if the specific lines of descent from the Windover community cannot be traced.

What The Site Teaches About Care

One of the most humanly significant things that Windover teaches is about care — about what it means for a community to take care of its members, and how that care is preserved in the physical record.

The spina bifida adolescent is the most documented case, but the evidence of community care at Windover is broader.

The pattern of healed fractures — broken bones that were realigned and immobilized during healing — suggests that injured community members received support during recovery rather than being left to manage on their own.