page_title: Wilma Mankiller
section_title: Return to Oklahoma
hierarchical_section_title: Wilma Mankiller / Return to Oklahoma
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Cherokee Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area. Taken from a public domain Census Bureau map, and cropped and recolored somewhat by me. &#160;&#160; Cherokee Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area &#160;&#160; Another Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area &#160;&#160; Indian Reservation &#160;&#160; Another part of Oklahoma &#160;&#160; Outside of Oklahoma Français&#160;: Carte de la Zone statistique de la tribu oklahomienne cherokee. A l'origine c'est une partie d'une carte du Bureau de Recensement des etats-unis en domaine publique&#160;; j'en ai modifié un peu les couleurs. QuartierLatin1968 02:31, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) &#160;&#160; Cherokee Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area &#160;&#160; Autre Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area &#160;&#160; Réserve indienne &#160;&#160; Autre partie d'Oklahoma &#160;&#160; En dehors d'Oklahoma
context_page_description: Wilma Pearl Mankiller was a Cherokee activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Native Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues.
  Returning to Oklahoma in the fall of 1976, Mankiller was hired by the Cherokee Nation as an economic stimulus coordinator. She progressed into grant writing and by the early 1980s, was directing the newly-created Community Development Department of the Cherokee Nation.
caption: Map of contemporary Cherokee Nation Tribal Jurisdiction Area (dark blue)
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