Before she became the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and the first woman to be chief of a major tribe, Wilma Mankiller published a poem about “the edges of / something called freedom.”
who guards the village.
Already, she was challenging the definition of what it means to be a woman. But she also knew how to inspire consensus. Notice how she chose the word “care” instead of “think,” the former being uncontroversial for a woman to do in most cultures, and the latter being infamously problematic for half of humanity.
San Francisco fed her growing interest in social work as a student and young activist writing poems. From 1969-1971, Indigenous Americans occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, an abandoned island and former home of the notorious federal prison. Citing the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, they protested for Indigenous reclamation of the out-of-use federal land.
“the lost children skinny junkies looking for a fix wasted young warriors searching for an alternative that doesn’t exist hopeless elders in lobbies of ancient, damp hotels…”
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