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Wilma Mankiller

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Wilma Mankiller
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The first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, from 1985 to 1995, Mankiller expanded tribal health clinics and community self-help projects and negotiated self-governance compacts letting the nation run federal programmes itself. Tribal enrolment and revenue grew sharply during her tenure.
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