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Wilma Mankiller

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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.


— Wilma Mankiller


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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.


— Wilma Mankiller


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I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.


— Wilma Mankiller


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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.


— Wilma Mankiller


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The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.


— Wilma Mankiller


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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.


— Wilma Mankiller


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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.


— Wilma Mankiller


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Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.


— Wilma Mankiller


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Growth is a painful process.


— Wilma Mankiller


#painful #process

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.


— Wilma Mankiller


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Mankiller Wilma Vine Deloria Jr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2008. Such a structure contrasted with the traditional Cherokee culture and value system which tended to include both sexes in leadership positions though in somewhat different capacities.

She served as principal chief for ten years from 1985 to 1995.

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