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April 7, 2010

Wilma Mankiller of Cherokee Nation Dies at 64
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And the Native American leader Wilma Mankiller has died at the age of
sixty-four. Mankiller was the first woman to head the Cherokee Nation,
the second-largest tribe in the United States.



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