The Cherokee Nation is celebrating the four-year anniversary of the Wilma P. Mankiller and Charlie Soap Water Act which has ...

Wilma Mankiller, a Native American activist who became the first female chief of her tribe, dedicated her life to the Cherokee Nation and the expansion of Indigenous rights. Zelensky Issues F-16 ...

Mankiller’s life resembled many Native people’s lives in the 20th century before she assumed the role of principal chief of ...

In 1992, Wilma Mankiller gave the commencement address at ... Thompson started her working life as a nurse, a career she’d heard paid well, she said. At the time a single mom, “working my ...

If you fish in your pocket or purse for a U.S. quarter today, there’s a chance you’ll see Wilma Mankiller’s face. She was the Cherokee Nation’s first female principal chief, and she inspired ...