I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.
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We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Wilma Mankiller
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.
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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.
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