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Gloria Steinem reflects on friendship with Wilma Mankiller

BY SHEILA STOGSDILL | Modified: April 8, 2010 at 6:39 am | Published: April 8, 2010

TAHLEQUAH — The friendship of the first woman to be named Cherokee Nation Principal Chief and a 1960s and 1970s feminist icon was not only a political alliance, but a friendship of mutual trust and respect.

Left: Angela Davis, Wilma Mankiller and Gloria Steinem in 1998

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