Mankiller addresses tribal history

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2002

Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, was the keynote speaker for a Lewis and Clark conference at Penn State University.

Mankiller spoke about the impact the early 1800s expedition had on Indian Country. After the journey was over, the federal government began removal of tribes to the West, she said, and treating Indian people in a paternalistic fashion.

"We began to no longer trust our own thinking, to no longer believe in ourselves," she said, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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