Bücher von Wilma Mankiller

As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together. Five scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today.

In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation. Now featuring a new Afterword to the 2000 paperback reissue, this edition of Mankiller completely updates the author's private and public life after 1994 and explores the recent political struggles of the Cherokee Nation.