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WriteTV, the website for the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, has posted a new interview with Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
The interview was recorded in December, before it was announced that Mankiller was ill with pancreatic cancer.
Teresa Miller, the center's director and host of "Writing Out Loud," where the interview was originally broadcast, said, "We had no inkling then -- and I'm convinced Wilma didn't either -- that she was
having these additional health concerns. In fact, I remember thinking
afterwards that she looked better than she had in some time. And she was in such wonderful spirits, but then she always is."
Miller said she later received an email from Mankiller after the announcement of her illness that this interview might be the last one she would do.
"But I know she's still planning to attend an event in Tahlequah this April, so perhaps that will change," Miller said. "I'm just grateful I got to spend this time with her."
The video is here:
Wilma Mankiller interview.
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