Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
Tribal chief, Musical Artist
1923 – 2011
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
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on July 23, 2013
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