Sorell, Traci
Summary: The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANSorell, Traci
Summary: "Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROSStarr, Emmet.
Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 StarrMankiller, Wilma Pearl
Summary: The story of the Cherokee Nation is told by Wilma Mankiller, who recounts her life and the racism she faced in her fight to lead it. Wilma Mankiller has been the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation since 1985. She tells her personal story (her political awakening came during the 1970 occupation of Alcatraz island), interwoven with the complex history of the Cherokee Nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKILLER, WILMA MANRumford, James
Summary: While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004