If you fish in your pocket or purse for a U.S. quarter today, there’s a chance you’ll see Wilma Mankiller ... “Mankiller: A Chief and Her People.” In her book and through her life ...

In 1992, Wilma Mankiller gave the commencement address at Flagstaff’s Northern Arizona University. Several years earlier, Mankiller had become the first female principal chief of the Cherokee ...

If you fish in your pocket or purse for a U.S. quarter today, there’s a chance you’ll see Wilma Mankiller’s face ... I tore through her autobiography, “Mankiller: A Chief and Her People.” In her book ...

Wilma Mankiller served in the top leadership role of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995. Peter Turnley/Corbis Historical via Getty Images ...