Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wilma Mankiller served in the top leadership role of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995. Peter Turnley/Corbis Historical via ...

Wilma Mankiller has many accomplishments to her name — the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a US quarter in her likeness, to name a few. Now, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wilma Mankiller’s daughters Alicia and Gina Olaya receive plaques from U.S. Mint Chief of Corporate Communications T.V. Johnson.

The first quarters featuring Wilma Mankiller went into circulation Monday in Tahlequah, the Cherokee Nation capital city where she was born and where she served as her nation’s first female principal ...

WASHINGTON — Prominent Native American and women's rights activist Wilma Mankiller is being honored with her own Barbie. The doll is the latest addition in Mattel's "Barbie Inspiring Women" series, ...

“I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.” – Wilma Mankiller. The first female leader of the Cherokee Nation was born Wilma Pearl Mankiller on Nov. 18, 1945 in ...

Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, one of the nation’s most visible Native American leaders and one of the few women to lead a major tribe, died Tuesday at her home in Adair County, Okla.