About Alice Lee Jemison
Alice Mae Lee Jemison 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. She lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and Sioux peoples during her career, supported by the Seneca Tribal Council. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration condemned her work, and critics described her harshly in press conferences and before Congressional committees. For a time, she was put under FBI surveillance. Alice Mae Lee Jemison (October 9, 1901 – March 6, 1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. Jemison was born on October 9, 1901, in Silver Creek, New York, near the Cattaraugus Reservation. Jemison separated from her husband in 1928 because of his chronic alcoholism.
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