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This is the story of an American legend, Wilma Mankiller, who overcame rampant sexism and personal challenges to emerge as the Cherokee Nation’s first woman Principal Chief in 1985. MANKILLER examines the legacy of the formidable Wilma Mankiller and reunites the documentary team of Gale Anne Hurd and Valerie Red-Horse Mohl for their third and ...
Wilma Mankiller was motivated to become active in Cherokee tribal affairs due to several life events that she discusses in detail in this interview recorded in 2009. Wilma was inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame in 1986, The Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1994 and received the Presidential Medal of Honor in 1998.
Washington, DC (June 13, 2022) – On Friday, June 10, to coincide with the release of the Wilma Mankiller Quarter, the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), in partnership with DC Public Library and with support from the United States Mint (Mint), screened the documentary Mankiller at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library located in the heart of downtown Washington, DC.
Wilma Mankiller am Nationalfeiertag der Cherokee, 2001. Wilma Pearl Mankiller (* 18. November 1945 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma; † 6. April 2010) war eine Schriftstellerin und Feministin aus dem Volk der Cherokee. Von 1985 bis 1995 war sie als erste Frau Oberhaupt der Cherokee Nation .
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This video was created by the New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project. Wilma Pearl Mankiller was born on November 18, 1945, at the W. W. Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Her father was Cherokee, and her mother was a white woman.
On Dec. 14, 1985, Wilma Mankiller took office as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She served in that role until 1995. Wilma would begin to gain huge international acknowledgement of her extraordinary leadership of the nation’s then largest American.
