Posted on 04/06/2010 10:19:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, one of the few women ever to lead a major American Indian tribe, has died. She was 64. Tribal spokesman Mike Miller said Mankiller, who became one of the nation's most visible American Indian leaders during her 10 years as chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, died Tuesday.
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Wilma Pearl Mankiller (November 18, 1945-April 6, 2010) was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She served as the Principal Chief for ten years from 1985 to 1995. She died of pancreatic cancer on April 6, 2010
The family surname, Mankiller, is a traditional Cherokee military rank and is Asgaya-dihi in Cherokee, which is alternatively spelled Outacity or Outacite.
RIP. That is very young.
Sad.
I met her when I was in grad school in 1972.
Putting this as delicately as possible, do you think her surname fitting?
I loved it!! Ha!!
Typical Tulsa Squirrel "reporting".
My section chief in the Army was an E-7 full blooded Cherokee (who had spent five years in the Navy as a code clerk and could type 105 WPM on a manual typewriter.) Really one heck of nice guy. He stood six foot zero, weighed about 130 and could easily hoist a folded GP medium tent over his head. Really wiry SOG.
I AM an American Indian....
And that was crappy writing....
I figured you were... LOL...
But, it still fits in the context of the article... News articles don’t have to be “devoid” of “style” you know ... :-)
Sad.
I am 1/8 Cherokee.
U-hyu’-s-ti Wilma Mankiller
I will hand you the style points....: )
I've mixed emotions/thoughts about these type's of "cultural awakenings"....
Too much to speak about here and now.....
FRegards,
Hey... I live in Indian Country too ... :-)
I’m not supposed to have Indian blood in me (at least no one told me) but I was born here, and I’ve been told that if you’re born here you probably have some Indian blood somewhere... LOL...
But, I am at least 1/4 English, to be sure, so I don’t know how that fits in... :-)
He was a very nice man.....A great outdoorsman....
I wish I'd of known him better.....He was a orphan and was schooled at Chilocco Indian School, Okla....where he met my Potawatomi Grandmother's sister.
They were married....
RIP Chief Mankiller.It is a rest well deserved for a life well led
RIP.
I never heard of this woman before reading this thread, and I just did a quick search. Ms. Mankiller is half Dutch & Irish. That might explain how she “grew up to become” American Indian. She began to explore the Cherokee side of her ancestry when she was an adult. Eventually, she embraced it as her entire identity.
Sounds like someone else we all know...
Her story makes a nice little history lesson, actually:
Politically, she was on the Left and was hailed as a hero by many on the Left. Interestingly, as per Wikipedia, there was a controversy when she was holding office: Some Cherokee were slaveowners. Once slavery was abolished, the former slaves (Cherokee freedmen) were enrolled into the Cherokee nation. Mankiller passed legislation to have the Freedmen descendants dismissed from the Cherokee Nation based on not having “Indian blood”.
It’s interesting how the Left works.
Good post.........
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