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Indiantown Historical Marker Honors Betty Mae Jumper Hollywood hosts Students jump rope Ahnie Jumper, FGCU Tribal Fair for healthy hearts face Team Japan COMMUNITY v 4A EDUCATION v 1B SPORTS v 1C Volume XLIII • Number 2 February 28, 2019 Native American Languages Act moves toward reauthorization BY DAMON SCOTT Staff Reporter A federal law designed to help preserve Native languages is now moving toward reauthorization after being stalled in the U.S. Congress. The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act seeks to revitalize Native American languages through immersion and restoration programs. Martinez was a linguist and storyteller for the Tewa people of New Mexico and was known for her commitment to preserve the Tewa language. She is the author of the San Juan Pueblo Tewa Dictionary, published in 1982. Martinez died in 2006 at 94 years old. After her death in 2006, Congress passed a law to amend the existing Native American Programs Act of 1974. The amended Act Derrick Tiger provided funding opportunities to “assess, Florida Seminole veterans participate in the 81st annual Brighton Field Day parade Feb. 16 on the Brighton Reservation. From left, Jack Smith (U.S. Army), Paul Bowers Sr. (U.S. Marines), Eddie Shore (U.S. plan, develop and implement projects to Air Force), Billie Micco (U.S. Army), Curtis Motlow (U.S. Navy), Stanlo Johns (U.S. Army), Moses Osceola (U.S. Marines) and Sallie Josh (U.S Navy). The veterans were aboard Stanlo Johns’ trailer and they ensure the survival and continuing vitality of sat on bay hales donated by Walpole Feed. Native languages.” It expired in 2012, although the program Tribe celebrates 81st Brighton Field Day continued to be funded after BY BEVERLY BIDNEY the music, entertainment, rodeo, Indian relay 1938. Once the rodeo, food, arts and crafts group. that time. Staff Reporter races, shopping and food. were added, the event morphed into the Next up was the traditional warrior In 2015, As a bonus, visitors also learned about massive festival it is now. demonstration which, through simulated U.S. Rep. BRIGHTON — The 81st annual Seminole culture, food and arts and crafts. On the first day, hundreds of school traditional warfare, showed how the Ben Ray Brighton Field Day Festival and Rodeo had Tribal vendors did a brisk business selling children filled the stands for the grand entry Seminoles deterred the U.S. soldiers in the Lujan, D-NM, something for everyone. Held Feb. 15-17, patchwork, beadwork, baskets and other which included Tribal officials, Seminole Everglades during the Seminole Wars and introduced the fun-filled event attracted more than 5,000 traditional items. royalty, Miss Indian World, the Lakota became the Unconquered Tribe. a bill to people from the region who came to enjoy Field Day actually began as an athletic Women Warriors and Seminole Color reauthorize competition between the reservations in Guards and WISDOM dancers exhibition F See FIELD DAY on page 4B U.S. Rep. Darren Soto appropriations until fiscal year 2020. He was joined on the Senate side by U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM. Even though both bills Indiantown historical marker were introduced in their respective chambers of Congress, they were not passed and the bill’s future has been in limbo since. The current 116th Congress is now taking up the reauthorization. honors Betty Mae Jumper Second term Florida Congressman Darren Soto, a Democrat, is an original BY BEVERLY BIDNEY cosponsor of the current reauthorization. He is also on the House subcommittee of Staff Reporter Indigenous Peoples of the United States. Soto’s District 9 stretches from areas of INDIANTOWN — Born and raised eastern Orlando, south-southeast to Yeehaw in a camp in Indiantown to an Indian Junction. It includes the cities of Kissimmee mother and an Irish father, Betty Mae and St. Cloud. Tiger Jumper was lucky to have survived Soto told the Seminole Tribune that it childhood. Equally fortunate is the Seminole was important for him to be a cosponsor of the Tribe, who benefited from her lifetime of bill and to be on the subcommittee, knowing accomplishments. the large Native population of Florida. As a “half breed” she could have been “It’s critical that we preserve these put to death, as was the custom when she historic American languages not only for was born in 1923. Instead, her mother, Ada Native children, but for all children,” Soto Tiger, moved the family to what was then the said. “It’s about history and getting in touch Dania reservation. with culture.” “They didn’t want her to live,” said Soto noted his own personal history, Moses Jumper Jr., Betty Mae’s son. “In that being of Puerto Rican descent. “I learned time, they didn’t want the white race to be some Spanish growing up, but it took effort part of our culture. When they came to take to learn it and for me to rediscover my her, she wouldn’t go. Her uncle stood by her heritage,” he said. and she was saved. They moved to Dania Soto confirmed that the reauthorization where she lived for the rest of her life.” was voted on favorably in the Senate Jumper grew up, got a degree in Committee on Indian Affairs Feb. 6. nursing, brought modern medicine to her “It shows some movement,” he said. “It people, started the Tribe’s first newspaper, never even got a hearing last term.” served as the first chairwoman of the Tribe, Soto said the midterm elections that was a founder of United South & Eastern recently placed Democrats back in power Tribes, was appointed by President Richard in the House of Representatives is a Nixon to the former National Council on positive sign the reauthorization will keep Indian Opportunity, was inducted into the moving forward. Not only that, but he said Florida Women’s Hall of Fame, earned a having Lujan as the lead sponsor is also an lifetime achievement award from the Native encouraging sign. Lujan is currently the American Journalists Association, received Assistant House Speaker, among his other an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters committee positions. from Florida State University and earned a “He’s a strong advocate for Native host of other honors. American rights,” Soto said. “It bodes well Beverly Bidney A plaque commemorating Jumper’s life Betty Mae Jumper’s sons Moses and Ruggy Jumper pose with the marker commemorating their mother’s life Feb. 7 in Indiantown. for the progress of the bill compared to last was unveiled Feb. 7 at the Seminole Inn in term when it didn’t get a hearing. Now that Indiantown, seven miles from her birthplace. you have shared government, it also bodes Jumper’s other son Boettner “Ruggy” the back in the shade to hear the speakers. Wall grew up in Indiantown, but was a crowd, each one filled with warmth and well for many social programs affecting Jumper and great granddaughter Alexis “We’re very proud of her and the things few years younger than Betty Mae. There humor. Natives.” Jumper also attended the event, along with she was able to do,” Moses said. “She was were only 36 kids in all of Martin County in “She was a wonderful lady,” Wall said. more than 100 attendees who came to honor a woman who cared about us and loved us. 1948 when she graduated from high school, “I’m a very basic person and Betty Mae was Message from the NIEA her. The marker is a Florida Heritage site She was always willing to do things for us she said. Although they didn’t know each the same. She was always herself and you and was sponsored by the Women’s Club of and for other people. She helped us grow and other well as children, Wall and Betty Mae could depend on her being herself.” According to the National Indian Stuart and the Florida Department of State. mature and become the people we are now.” connected again in the 1960s at a rodeo in Although Siggy Jumper isn’t a member Education Association, the survival of Native After the historical marker was unveiled, Jonnie Flewelling, Wall’s daughter and Davie. of the Seminole Tribe, he is Chiricahua languages is intricately tied to the success of the crowd gathered under a tent behind the co-owner of the Inn, served as emcee and “We stayed at the Seminole campground Apache from New Mexico and he grew up Native communities and survival of Native Seminole Inn where Moses and Iris Wall, a introduced Moses and her mother. and we talked and talked,” Wall said. “That among the Seminoles and Miccosukee in the cultures. friend of Betty Mae’s and owner of the Inn, “One of the best things about your life is started our relationship and we grew to be 1970s. He shared his special connection with “Immersion programs have proven spoke. Some of the overflow crowd set up the legacy you leave,” Flewelling said. “We really good friends.” F See LANGUAGES ACT on page 6A chairs outside the tent, while others stood in should all think about ours.” Wall shared a few stories with the F See BETTY MAE on page 5A Editorial......................2A Health.............................9A Sports............... ............1C @TheSeminoleTribune @SeminoleTribune INSIDE: Community..................3A Education....................1B 2A • The Seminole Tribune • February 28, 2019 Editorial McCoy bill would aid voting Native patriots at Alcatraz rights of Indians paved the way for all of us “Tribes operate in a different way from • The Herald Editorial many,” McCoy wrote. “Our community is Board (Everett, Wash.) relationship-based; those that live on the dignity to a people. legacy is wide reaching. When he was shot reservation know all their neighbors.
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