dc.contributor.author	Moats, Bryan Cordell
dc.coverage.spatial	Florida--Silver Springs	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1930-2023	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-03T14:12:20Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-03T14:12:20Z
dc.date.issued	2023-08
dc.identifier.other	0cb42e98-1f25-4643-8474-04c203ba6240	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6815
dc.description.abstract	Historical tourism is a major industry around the world. However, some locations that utilize history have not typically been considered part of this industry. Such places include Silver Springs State Park, located in Ocala, Florida. The purpose of this study is to explore how Silver Springs impacts public knowledge of Native American history. The first tourist activities began at the springhead of the Silver River in the post-Civil War era. By the 1930s, Silver Springs had become a fully developed amusement park. Most of the current boat fleet was built in the mid to late 1960s and named after historical Native American figures: for example, boats running today include the “Chief Neamathla,” “Chief Micanopy,” “Chief Emathla” and “Chief Charly Cypress.” Western cultural concepts have shaped Native American portrayals at Silver Springs, evidenced by the site’s limited expression of Indigenous facts despite their extensive use of namesakes and history. The Indigenous people of Florida have played a dynamic and important role in the history of the region around Silver Springs and deserve to be recognized properly at the tourist site. While Silver Springs has made an attempt at this recognition, the site has not done so with respect to Indigenous people and cultures. Further efforts to present Native American history need to avoid the tendencies to represent Native Americans with outdated tropes and stereotypes. A focus on historical tourism will increase the authenticity of Native representation at Silver Springs and similar tourist sites.	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic record. PDF/A document, 121 pages, 8600087 bytes bytes.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation	Transcript of Interview with Robbie Morin, current Glass Bottom Boat captain, March 28, 2023. Interview on 03/28/2023. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6778.
dc.relation.haspart	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6778
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	History	en_US
dc.subject	Indigenous peoples--Study and teaching	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	Glass bottom boats	en_US
dc.subject	Florida--Silver Springs	en_US
dc.subject	Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Public Understanding of Native American History: Silver Springs State Park and the Glass Bottom Boats	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of History	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Aiello, Thomas
dc.description.committee	Fitzgerald, Sarah
dc.description.committee	Nooe, Evan
dc.description.committee	Haggard, Dixie
dc.description.committee	Lovern, Lavonna
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	History	en_US