When the news broke in Florida Thursday that a federal judge had blocked further construction at the migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz," more than a hundred members of the Miccosukee Tribe were entering the fifth hour of a contentious community meeting.

Curtis Esteban Osceola, a tribe member and attorney, interrupted the meeting to deliver the news of the unlikely victory.

"It was a roar of applause," Osceola recounted to ABC News. "Everyone was very, very pleased that the judge granted the temporary restraining order."

It's a temporary victory for an Indian tribe whose history has been partially shaped by broken promises from the United States. But temporary or not, Thursday's order put the Miccosukee -- a small tribe of less than a thousand members -- in the

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