Wilma Mankiller Autographs
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues.
When Mankiller returned to Oklahoma in 1976, the Cherokee Nation hired her as an economic stimulus coordinator. With her expertise at preparing documentation, she became a successful grant writer, and by the early 1980s was directing the newly created Community Development Department of the Cherokee Nation. As Director she designed and supervised innovative community projects allowing rural citizens to identify their own challenges and, through their labor, participate in solving them. Her project in Bell, Oklahoma, was featured in the movie The Cherokee Word for Water, directed by Charlie Soap and Tim Kelly. In 2015, the movie was selected as the top American Indian film of the past 40 years by the American Indian Film Institute. Her project in Kenwood received the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Certificate of National Merit.
Her management ability came to the notice of the incumbent Principal Chief, Ross Swimmer, who invited her to run as his deputy in the 1983 tribal elections. When the duo won, she became the first elected woman to serve as Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She was elevated to Principal Chief when Swimmer took a position in the federal administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, serving until 1995. During her administration, the Cherokee government built new health clinics, created a mobile eye-care clinic, established ambulance services, and created early education, adult education and job training programs. She developed revenue streams, including factories, retail stores, restaurants and bingo operations, while establishing self-governance, allowing the tribe to manage its own finances.
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Current items with a signature of Wilma Mankiller
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Traded items with a signature of Wilma Mankiller
The most expensive item with a signature of Wilma Mankiller (Wilma Mankiller SIGNED Mankiller A Chief and Her People 1994 1st Ed. SC w/GOA) was sold in November 2023 for $89.99 while the cheapest item (Autographed pamplet by Wilma Mankiller) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2011. The month with the most items sold (5) was September 2025 with an average selling price of $12.56 for an autographed item of Wilma Mankiller. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $80.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was May 2011. In average, an autographed item from Wilma Mankiller is worth $22.63.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Mankiller A Chief and Her People Signed by Wilma Mankiller Hardcover Dust Jacket | $35.40 |  |
| MANKILLER A Chief Her People Wilma Mankiller 1993 First Edition Signed St | $45.00 | |
 | Mankiller SIGNED First Edition First Printing 1993 Wilma Mankiller CherokeeChief | $50.00 | |
| Mankiller SIGNED First Edition First Printing 1993 Wilma Mankiller CherokeeChief | $45.00 | |
| Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller - SIGNED 1st edition | $30.00 | |
 | SIGNED! Every Day Is a Good Day…Indigenous Women by Wilma Mankiller / 2004 PB | $50.00 | |
| Vintage 90's Autographed Postcard Of Wilma Mankiller SCAD Distinguished Lecture | $34.99 | |
| Vintage 90's Autographed Postcard Of Wilma Mankiller SCAD Distinguished Lecture | $34.99 | |
| WILMA MANKILLER: CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION (SIGNATURE By Pamela Jain Dell VG+ | $25.49 | |
| WILMA MANKILLER: CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION (SIGNATURE By Pamela Jain Dell VG+ | $25.49 | |
 | Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Signature Lives: Modern Ameri... | $15.85 | |
 | Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Signature Lives: Modern Ameri... | $8.10 | |
 | Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Signature Lives: Modern America) | $13.09 | |
 | Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Signature Lives: Modern... | $17.63 | |
| Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Signature Lives: Modern... | $6.45 | |
