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Indigenous Women: Wilma Mankiller

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The Legacy of Indigenous Women

Wilma was elected to a full four year term in 19 87 and re elected in 19 91. By the end of her tenyure, her tribe's budget reached a hundred and 50 million dollars a year. Wilma married charlie soap, who was also cherokee, in 19 86. She described their riage as one between equals with mutual respect. At wilma's funeral, her long time friend gloria stinam said, ancient traditions call for setting signal fires to light the way home for a great one. Fires were lit in 23 countries after wilma's death.

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