1594: Wilma Mankiller: Cherokee Nation-Building in Health, Education, and Sovereignty
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/11/13
How does Wilma Mankiller’s reveal her strategy for Cherokee self-determination across health, education, and governance?
1992: “Do not think this is going to happen.”
1992: “The other advice I have to give you is, do not live your life safely.”
1993: “We had a government in this country long before there was a United States government.”
1993: “Don’t ever argue with a fool.”
1993: “I had very low self-esteem.”
1994: “I hope that when I leave that it will be said that I did what I could.”
2001: “Yet what’s absolutely remarkable about Cherokee people is that they almost immediately began to reform the Cherokee Nation.”
2001: “So everybody helped each other.”
2008: “It certainly wasn’t a new world to the millions of people that have lived here for thousands of years.”
2009: “If you want to see our future, look at our past.”
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