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- Apr. 18, 1994: Retiring:Wilma Mankiller
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Apr. 18, 1994 Is It All Over for Smokers?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> RETIRING. WILMA MANKILLER, 48, first female elected principal
- chief of the Cherokee Nation; in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Inspired
- by the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in
- California, where her family had moved in the 1950s, Mankiller
- returned to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma as an Indian-rights
- activist. By 1985 she was chief. Mankiller announced her decision
- not to run for re-election next year at a meeting of tribal
- employees. "My season here is coming to an end," she said.
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- </body>
- </article>
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