LITTLE PEOPLE BIG DREAMS: WILMA MANKILLER (HB)

Growing up, little Wilma was surrounded by her Cherokee heritage. Her parents taught her to be proud of who she was. But when the family moved from Oklahoma’s Rocky Mountains to the city of San Francisco, it was a big change, and Wilma fully realised how unfairly the world treated Native Americans. As an adult, she became a leader in the fight for Native American rights, and she rose to become the first woman to be elected as a Chief of a Cherokee Nation.