John Billy was a bad Indian. He drank, drabbed, brawled in a way to shock his fellow Seminoles, who spend their lives manufacturing souvenirs, wrestling 'gators for Miami's winter visitors, drowsing through humid summers in the Everglades. Recently Seminole heads shook ominously. Word went out that John Billy had assaulted the daughter of John Osceola, great-grandson of a great Seminole warrior, himself the venerable chief of Pirates' Cove Village on the Miami River. Last week the heads of Miami authorities were shaking, too, as they tried to puzzle out what had happened...
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