FROM THE ARCHIVE
Yellow Bird: Wilma Mankiller
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2001

"When you live in Indian country or belong to that larger group of tribal nations, people just seem to know each other, or at least they know someone who knows someone you know. If you keep tracing back on these connections, you eventually come up with, "Hey, I went to boarding school with him back in 1980," or "I met her at a powwow in Oklahoma in 1985." That is the way it goes.

So, I had heard of this Oklahoma woman. . ."

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