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Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation, serving from 1985-1995. Originally stepping in to replace the previous chief, she won her official election by a margin of eighty percent.<\/p>\n
She became an activist at a young age, after her family was relocated from Oklahoma to San Francisco as a result of the Indian Relocation Act at eleven years old. She participated in the Occupation of Alcatraz Island, where a group of Native Americans occupied the abandoned Alcatraz Island with the goal of getting the United States to honor a treaty promising abandoned federal buildings to Native Americans. Growing up displaced inspired her to stand up for others, and she became a social worker and moved back to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
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