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A review by baghaii
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Michael Wallis, Wilma Mankiller
4.0
Wilma Mankiller is a former chief of the Cherokee people who died in 2010.
In this book, she weaves her own biography into a larger history of the Cherokee people while starting each chapter with short excerpts that are related to the creation myths and values of the Cherokee people.
From reading this book, I learned that the Cherokee syllabary was not created until the early 1800s by Sequoyah.
I learned that a lot of older Cherokee people were Republicans because they still hated Andrew Jackson for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Mankiller grew up as one of eleven children in her family. She grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma until the family was moved to San Francisco when the Bureau of Indian Affairs felt it was best to get Indians off the reservations and into the rest of society.
Mankiller was friends with Gloria Steinem and struggled with a number of health complications during her life including a debilitating kidney disease.
In this book, she weaves her own biography into a larger history of the Cherokee people while starting each chapter with short excerpts that are related to the creation myths and values of the Cherokee people.
From reading this book, I learned that the Cherokee syllabary was not created until the early 1800s by Sequoyah.
I learned that a lot of older Cherokee people were Republicans because they still hated Andrew Jackson for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Mankiller grew up as one of eleven children in her family. She grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma until the family was moved to San Francisco when the Bureau of Indian Affairs felt it was best to get Indians off the reservations and into the rest of society.
Mankiller was friends with Gloria Steinem and struggled with a number of health complications during her life including a debilitating kidney disease.