Seminole Indian Joe Doctor has taken a piece of his heritage and turned it into a thriving business. Doctor owns a Fort Lauderdale company that builds chickees, a simple, open shelter made from cyp… ...

Chickee is the Seminole word for “house.”When not working as the superintendent of food services for Lake County schools, Hill […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 80°F.

Chickee cross beams measure about 16 inches in diameter and the chickee’s poles, or legs, are about 10 inches across. The cypress is untreated but will last “indefinitely,” Osceola said.

Near the northern tip of Anclote Key Preserve State Park, in about 1 ½ feet of water, someone was building a traditional thatched-roof Seminole Indian chickee hut — but on stilts.

He had lived in such “houses” for the first 25 years of his life. His name was Danny Billie and he was a Seminole Indian. 1. The traditional Seminole dwelling is called a chickee, meaning ...

When Veronica Stalkup paid some Seminole Indians to construct a chickee to house her llama in the yard of her beachfront residence, she never dreamed the thatched-roof hut would be the subject of ...