Wilma Mankiller 1
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- Wilma Mankiller was born in Oklahoma, the sixth of 11 children. She grew up in a home without electricity, indoor plumbing, or a telephone. She came from a large family that spent many years on the family farm in Oklahoma.
- Wilma Mankiller loved to read, this love of reading came from the traditional Cherokee passion for telling and listening to stories. But it also came from her parents, particularly her father.
- In 1959 the family moved to San Francisco, later Mankiller decided to leave her parents and go to live with her maternal grandmother, Pearl Sitton, on a family ranch inland from San Francisco.
- Mankiller became politicized, at the 30 same time reinforcing her identity as a Cherokee and her attachmentsto the Cherokee people, their history and traditions.
- The Center provided entertainment, social and cultural activities for youth, as well as a place for adults to hold powwows and discuss matters of importance with other BIA relocatees.
- San Francisco Indian Center
- When a group of Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in November 1969, in protest of U.S. Government policies, which had,for hundreds of years, deprived them of their lands, Mankiller participated in her first major political action.
- Alcatraz Island
- In the years that followed the "occupation," Mankiller became 40 more active in developing the cultural resources of the Native American community. She helped build a school and an Indian Adult Education Center. She directed the Native American Youth Center in East Oakland, coordinating field trips to tribal functions, hosting music concerts, and giving kids a place to do their homework or just connect with each other.
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