(Associated Press)
By ROCHELLE HINES and MURRAY EVANS
Associated Press Writers
OKLAHOMA CITY
Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, one of the few women ever to lead a major American Indian tribe, has died. She was 64.
Tribal spokesman Mike Miller said Mankiller, who became one of the nation's most visible American Indian leaders during her 10 years as chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, died Tuesday.
Mankiller had battled...
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