Why do so many liberals adore Wilma Mankiller?

The women's voices in Wilma Mankiller's book still ring true. ... Many things have happened since the book first appeared in 2004. ... She deems it a must-read for liberals and conservatives alike: “Unlike those of us who know nothing of so- called prehistory, Native women and men have a tradition of ...

A genocide that is hidden, ignored, and denied yet, in so many arenas has ... It is even odder that one can, of course, have the blood of many tribes in ones' ... Wilma Mankiller, Principle chief of the Cherokee Tribe, 1985-1995 ... The argument of such change being part of a “liberal agenda” is similar to the ...

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know ... The United States is virtually the only nation in the world where so many ... Who, that comprehends these gifts, does not see that the diversities of the race vanish before them? ... .. Wilma Mankiller, Mankiller : A Chief and Her People ( 1993).

Many are still struggling to get a handle on Francis, who since. ... that the Big Bang does not contradict the "creative intervention of God". ... Liberals cheered a preliminary report on the proceedings that, consonant with ... In another interview, he said the church shouldn't speak so ... LOVE FOR THE PO...

Wilma Mankiller herself is a protector of her people and a kind of warrior for justice. ... It didn't matter, we lost our land and lost many of our rights anyway and so no ... and it's just absolutely amazing that they were able to do that given what had ... school was he learned the love of reading and of literature, which he ...

San Francisco transformed many people living there during the ... so many '60s radicals couldn't have been more remote to Mankiller. ... Wilma was 11 when the Mankillers arrived in San Francisco. ... “I had no job, very little money, no car, had no idea what I was going to do, but knew it was time to go home ...

Wilma Mankiller, the once dirt-poor Oklahoma farm girl who grew up to become an American Indian and women's rights ... . I did think she was quite the Democrat liberal though. ... .. I think that would be in Free Republic's best interests to do so. ... Mankiller faced many obstacles during her tenure in office.

Wilma Mankiller has long been in the forefront of social and political action ... This attitude of enduring optimism has given strength to the many people who look up ... a spirit that transcends even the commitment to courage and love and holds ... Even the liberals and conservatives who are so divided in this country-like the ...