Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

Tribal chief, Musical Artist

1923 – 2011

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Who was Betty Mae Tiger Jumper?

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee was the first and so far the only female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. A nurse, she co-founded the tribe's first newspaper in 1956, the Seminole News, later replaced by The Seminole Tribune, for which she served as editor, winning a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native American Journalists Association. In 2001 she published her memoir, entitled A Seminole Legend.

Tiger was the first Florida Seminole to learn to read and write English, and the first to graduate from high school and a nursing program. In addition to serving as editor of the newspaper, she was Communications Director for the tribe.

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Born
Apr 27, 1923
Florida
Also known as
  • Betty Mae Jumper
  • Jumper, Betty Mae
Ethnicity
  • Seminole
Profession
Died
Jan 14, 2011

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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