Alaska Native Resilience : Voices from World War II (PB) Inuit Culture Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the

Alaska Native Resilience : Voices from World War II (PB) Inuit Culture Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation At a time when First Nations peoples struggled under assimilative government policy and society’s racial assumptions Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting sovereignty over their homelands Yet Alaska Native peoples took steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control