Alice Mae Lee Jemison (October 9, 1901 – March 6, 1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. [1]

Alice Jemison was born on October 9, 1901, the first of three children of Daniel A. Lee and Elnora Seneca. Though her cabinetmaker father was Cherokee, Alice grew up in the matrilineal society of her Seneca mother.

Nov 2, 2022 · Alice was an outspoken advocate who championed tribal rights. She was incredibly disturbed by the living conditions that the policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal created for her people. Jemison relentlessly and vocally criticized the BIA and was determined to protect the S

Apr 9, 2020 · Our last two articles about the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act provided excerpts of the 1940 testimony of Alice Lee Jemison (Jamison), a member of the Seneca Tribe located in New York.

Alice Mae Lee Jemison was an American political activist and journalist. Background Jemison was born on October 9, 1901, in Silver Creek, New York, just off the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation of the Seneca nation.

Despite being falsely labeled at various times as an unrepresentative “mixed-blood;” a Nazi, a fascist, and a communist, Jemison was a much more representative voice of Seneca women than her enemies ever acknowledged.

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Lakota) and Alice Lee Jemison (Seneca) were twentieth century political activists, fighting, respectively, for full rights of American Indians as American citizens and for national identity as indigenous sovereign nations.

Alice Lee Jemison, who was a Seneca political activist and the most well-known AIF member, also strongly accused the Roosevelt Administration and the Indian New Deal of being Communist. She argued, for example, that under the BIA, Native American children had to read Communist books in school, such as New Russia’s Primer .

Alice Mae Lee Jemison (1901–1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier.

This article focuses on the important political career of the late Alice Lee Jemison, a Seneca Indian and one of the major Indian critics of Commissioner Collier and his program. (Author/RTS) Descriptors: Activism , American Indians , Females , Historical Reviews , Leadership , Self Determination , Trust Responsibility (Government)