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Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller is being included in the U.S. Mint’s series of coins through the American Women Quarters Program. As well as honoring author Maya Angelou ...
Wilma Mankiller taught her daughter that being angry about a health problem won't fix it. Now Gina Olaya, who has the same hereditary kidney disease as her mother, a former Cherokee Nation ...
Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. —Wilma Mankiller Entrepreneurship is full of storms. Market shifts, hiring dilemmas, supply chain ...
The Wilma P. Mankiller & Charlie Soap Water Act of 2021 earmarks a minimum of $2.5 million annually for improvements to aging lines and systems. The act kicked off in the Cherry Tree Rural Water ...
The other four honorees are: writer Maya Angelou; Sally Ride, an educator and the first American woman in space; Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation; and ...
Quarters featuring poet Maya Angelou, astronaut Sally Ride, suffragist Nina Otero-Warren, and Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. In 2025, you can expect to see ...
HENDERSON, Texas — A Henderson woman marked a significant milestone on Tuesday. Wilma Bennett celebrated her 102nd birthday, surrounded by loved ones. “It's just great to have her around still ...
Wilma Jean Brakefield Vines, 81, of Tallassee, AL, a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother known to her family as Mu, passed away on May 2, 2025. Wilma was born April 21, 1944.
Wilma Frances Hurley age 94, passed away peacefully on May 6, 2025, while in the care of Legacy at South Plains in Lubbock, Texas. Wilma was born on October 12, 1930, in Blair, Oklahoma, to Kirby ...
HENDERSON, Texas — A Henderson woman marked a significant milestone on Tuesday. Wilma Bennett celebrated her 102nd birthday, surrounded by loved ones. “It's just great to have her around still ...
Wilma Cage, 94, of Hixson, passed away on Monday, May 5, 2025. She was a member of Central Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wheeler Cage and brothers, Gene Frederick and ...