1945 - 2010
Once served as the Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Chief Mankiller has been active in national and international issues of the Native American movement. However, her emphasis has been on local Native community development.
TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY, (56:00 min.s) recorded in a public forum Mar. 21, 1989 at Boulder, Colorado. In this speech, Chief Mankiller reviews the history of the Cherokee experience, the evolution of Cherokee tribal government and her personal experience of being a woman Chief in tribal government.
"We survive, our languages are intact, we have a cultural system that's intact, we have a social system that has been impacted, I'II grant that, but we still have, many of our old cultural factors are still play a part in our everyday life. We still have a lot of our art forms.
And this wasn't intended to happen. By now, we were supposed to have gone away.
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