A striking picturebook biography of Wilma Mankiller, first female Cherokee Chief, this beautiful addition to the Big Words series will inspire future leaders to persevere in empathy and thoughtful problem-solving, reaching beyond themselves to help those around them.
Moving prose by award-winning author Doreen Rappaport is interwoven with Wilma\'s own words in this expertly researched biography, illustrated with warmth and vivacity by Linda Kukuk..
This beautiful addition to the Big Words series will inspire future leaders to persevere in empathy and thoughtful problem-solving, reaching beyond themselves to help those around them.
As leader and advocate, she reinvigorated her constituency by empowering them to identify and solve community problems.
Despite many obstacles, from resistance to female leadership to a life-threatening accident, Wilma\'s courageous dedication to serving her people led to her election as the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Returning to Oklahoma with her daughters, Wilma took part in Cherokee government.
She took her two children to visit tribal communities in the state, and as she introduced them to the traditions of their heritage, she felt a longing for home.
There, she worked to build and develop the local Native community and championed Native political activists.
Separated from her community and everything she knew, Wilma felt utterly lost until she found refuge in the Indian Center in San Francisco.
But in 1956, the federal government uprooted her family and moved them to California, wrenching them from their home, friends, and traditions.
As a child in Oklahoma, Wilma Mankiller experienced the Cherokee practice of Gadugi, helping each other, even when times were hard for everyone.
This Big Words book from an award-winning author tells the courageous Life story of Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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A striking picturebook biography of Wilma Mankiller, first female Cherokee Chief, this beautiful addition to the Big Words series will inspire future leaders to persevere in empathy and thoughtful problem-solving, reaching beyond themselves to help those around them
