Lucille Jerry Winnie

Lucille "Jerry" Winnie (born 1905) was a Seneca-Cayuga author who wrote her autobiography, San-Gan-De-Oh: The Chief's Daughter, which detailed her life including her education at the federal boarding school for Native Americans, Haskell Institute. She worked as an educator in federal boarding schools and spent time dedicated to the education of Indigenous people.

Biography Lucille Jerry Winnie was born in 1905 in Oklahoma, and was raised on reservations in both Oklahoma and Montana. She was of Seneca and Cayuga heritage.

Her father was a teacher in the American Indian boarding schools, known for being an advocate for education. He often said, "In the Indian youth lies the hope of our people." He died when Winnie was 12 years old. She worked for a teacher on Saturday mornings that paid her $1, which Winnie describes as a small fortune. Haskell employed military discipline and she bucked against the strict regimen. She was never popular with the officers or matrons, and only earned the rank of "buck private." At least one of her brothers died because of overexertion on the track team. She was not entirely disillusioned, and later recognized the usefulness of the training she received for life in mostly white society.