While she didn’t know much about the Miss Cherokee role, Cherokee Nation citizen Brenda Fitzgerald said she was “nudged” to try out by her twin sister, Glenda.
More than 1,500 people stood in line outside the Cherokee Casino in Tahlequah on Monday to get the first quarters honoring the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee Nation invited residents, educational leaders, artists, activists, and current and former tribal leaders, along with the family of Wilma Mankiller, to the unveiling of a new U.S. quarter