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Wilma Mankiller

  • 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 {view}
  • I had no job, very little money, no car, had no idea what I was going to do, but knew it was time to go home.... Wilma Mankiller {view}
  • My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.... Wilma Mankiller {view}