Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, Seminole chief (died 2011)

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (1923–2011)

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee (Seminole), was the first and so far the only female chairperson 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…