This is a TWO STAGE multicache. You will need to visit the first stage, at the posted coordinates, to obtain the information you need to find the actual geocache container. You are solving for N 27° 0A.BCD W 080° 2E.FGH
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 (at the time of this geocache hide). A nurse, she co-founded the tribe's first newspaper, 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.
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was elected as the first female chairwoman, or chief, of the Seminole tribe, a decade after it gained federal recognition. She founded the United South and Eastern Tribes (USET), a group to run health and education programs for its members; it also became a powerful lobby with the states and Congress. In 1970, she was one of two women appointed by President Richard M. Nixon to the National Congress on Indian Opportunity. She served on the council for a total of 16 years.
Jumper authored three books,
And With the Wagon - Came God's Word
Legends of the Seminoles, illustrated by Guy La Bree (children's book, 1994)
A Seminole Legend, with Patsy West, (2001)
She narrated a video, The Corn Lady, telling a Seminole traditional story.
Tiger-Jumper was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award ever presented by the Native American Journalists Association.
She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
She was named "Woman of the Year" by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women.
She received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Florida State University.
She received a Florida Department of State Folklife Heritage Award.
The last surviving matriarch of the Snake clan, she died peacefully in her sleep.
To find the geocache container, you will need to answer the following questions using the Historical Information Marker located at ground zero. Once you answer the questions, substitute the answer for the letter. You are solving for:
N 27° 0A.BCD W 080° 2E.FGH
A = The fourth digit of the year Betty Mae Tiger Jumper died.
B = The third digit of the year Jumper graduated nursing school.
C = The third digit of the year Jumper cofounded the Seminole News.
D = The fourth digit of the year Jumper was born.
E = The last digit of the age in which Jumper died.
F = The third digit of the year Jumper was born.
G = The sum of the first and second digits of the age of Jumper when she was sent to Boarding School.
H = The last digit of the year Jumper was elected Chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
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