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A 2013 feature film, The Cherokee Word for Water, tells the story of the Bell waterline project that helped launch Mankiller's political career and started her friendship with her future husband, Charlie Soap.
Mankiller le encontraba sofisticado y a pesar de que sus padres no estaban conformes con la unión, ambos se casaron en Reno, Nevada el 13 de noviembre de 1963, yendo de luna de miel a Chicago. A su vuelta a California, fueron a vivir a un apartamento en el Mission District, y 10 meses más tarde nació su hija Felicia.
28 de ene. de 2014 · The docudrama, directed by Wilma’s husband and longtime community development partner, Charlie Soap, follows a young Mankiller as she works to bring water to the rural, primarily Cherokee community of Bell, Ok.
In October 1986 she married Charles L. Soap, a full-blood Cherokee, whom she met while working on the Bell revitalization project. Despite her personal health issues Mankiller has continued to write, to speak, and to teach American Indian culture.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Wilma Mankiller (born November 18, 1945, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, U.S.—died April 6, 2010, Adair county, Oklahoma) was a Native American leader and activist, the first woman chief of a major tribe.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. Wilma had five older and five younger siblings.
In 1962, at age 17, Mankiller had married Hector Hugo Olaya de Bardi, an Ecuadoran immigrant with whom she would have two daughters. He had expected a traditional marriage, and protested her growing involvement in political movements as well as her desire to improve her education.
