Complex sentence: Betty Mae Tiger (given her mother's surname, in matrilineal tradition) was born in 1923 to a Seminole Indian mother and a French trapper father, a fair-skinned half-breed who was nearly killed at age five by tribal medicine men.
Split into simpler sentences: Betty Mae Tiger (given her mother's surname, in matrilineal tradition) was born in 1923 to a Seminole Indian mother and a French trapper father. She was a fair-skinned half-breed who was nearly killed at age five by tribal medicine men.