Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”I’ve been very fortunate to be able to travel extensively in this country and abroad, and I can tell you that even though our people are very fragmented today, we still, in the more traditional communities still have a sense of interdependence. I can still motivate people in communities to do something because it helps their neighbor, or helps the person down the road, or helps the community much more than I can motivate people to do something just because it helps themselves.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
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Mankiller has found that Cherokee people “in the more traditional communities” will help their neighbors.B
Mankiller asserts that while the Cherokee have been fragmented, they still have “a sense of community.”C
Mankiller says she can motivate people in traditional communities “to do something because it helps their neighbor.”D
Mankiller believes that part of Cherokee culture survives because the people “do something because it helps their neighbor.”