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 Nation, ...
TULSA, Okla. — Lillian Charles sang on stages before, but she shared her talents on a parade float for Tulsa's eighth annual Native American Day celebrations. The young Cherokee woman represented ...
In Native communities across the United States, we have always known: when you invest in women, you invest in whole nations. Women are the backbone of our communities, the culture-bearers, the ...