Wilma Mankiller

I thought i would share some details about the early life and some other things of Wilma Mankiller. Wilma was born in Northeastern Oklahoma to a white mother and a Cherokee father. However at the age of ten she moved to the San Francisco area due to a government relocation program where she would live for another two decades. During this time in California she participated in Native protests regarding land rights.By the mid 70's she also participated in community development projects for the Cherokee nation.By 1983 she was deputy chief. Mankiller was a well known feminist that was at times in the center of american politics and provocative discussion related to women empowerment.However Mankiller never criticized the lives of Native women before white contact calling their lives duties due to gender roles and that challenging gender constructs at such a time would have been bad, but times have changed. She died in 2010.