Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation. "


So from 1906 and 1907, when Oklahoma became a state, and until 1971, we didn’t elect our own tribal leaders. Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation and some of the other, well they call them Southeastern tribes; by now they were in Indian Territory; our Chiefs were appointed by the President of the United States, and usually for no good purpose. They were appointed so they could sign easements or give away land, or other resources of the tribes. . . . It’s interesting to see how our people began to view leadership during this period of time from 1906-1907 to 1971. They began to see Chiefs of the Cherokees as something external to themselves; a position that only very prominent people who had little connection to the tribe could aspire to or hold.


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According to Mankiller, the Cherokee viewed "leadership during this period" as people who had little connection to the tribe, because the chiefs were appointed by the US president rather than being elected by the tribe.

Mankiller acknowledges some resentment among the tribe’s members that the people chosen to be Chiefs of the Cherokees in the 1900s were "only very prominent people who had little connection to the tribe. "

Mankiller said that, from 1906 to 1971, the Cherokee saw the Chiefs as something "external" to themselves, because the chiefs were "prominent" people who had no connection to the tribe.

Because Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation for most of the 1900s were appointed by the US president, tribe members saw the position as one "only very prominent people who had little connection to the tribe could aspire to," Mankiller explains