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Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee (April 27, 1923 – January 14, 2011) (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 served as editor, winning a ...
Susie Jim Billie (1900–2003) was a Seminole traditional maker of medicine and grand matriarch of the Panther clan in her region. [1] She was born at the turn of the last century in Collier County, Florida in the United States, and resided on the Big Cypress Reservation, where she practiced traditional healing arts for her community.
Louise Jones Gopher (May 25, 1945 – November 16, 2016) [1] was the second Seminole (after Billy Cypress) and the first woman from the Seminole tribe of Florida to earn a bachelor's degree. Gopher, a former director of education for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, was the first female Seminole to earn a bachelor's degree when she graduated from ...
The modern Florida Seminole, about 17,233 at the 2010 census, Miccosukee and Traditionals descend from these survivors. [6] The Florida Seminole re-established limited relations with the United States and Florida governments in the late 19th century, and by the early 20th century were concentrated in five camps in the Everglades.
The Florida Militia pursued Seminole who were outside the reservation boundaries. In the period prior to the Third Seminole War, the militia captured one man and a few women, and 140 hogs. One Seminole woman elder committed suicide while being held by the militia, after the rest of her family had escaped. The whole operation cost the state US ...
Abiaka, also known as Sam Jones, [1] (c. 1781 – c. 1866) was a Seminole-Miccosukee chief, warrior, and shaman who fought against the United States during the Seminole Wars. He was born among the Miccosukee [2] people of Georgia, who would migrate south into Florida and become part of the Seminole tribe. He initially rose to prominence among ...
The Jim Jumper massacre, or Bluefields massacre, was an incident in 1889 at a Seminole Indian camp northeast of Lake Okeechobee, in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States, in which Jim Jumper, a biracial Seminole, killed several Seminoles, and was then killed by another Seminole.
The 2024–25 Florida State Seminoles women's basketball team represents Florida State University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. They are led by fourth-year head coach Brooke Wyckoff , who previously served as interim head coach for the team during the 2020–21 season .