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Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap
Overview
You probably know the story of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. You might not recognize the name of her husband, Charlie Soap, yet his role as a Native community organizer is no less significant. Combining memoir, history, and current affairs, Last One Walking charts for the first time the life and work of this influential Cherokee. In telling this story, author and former journalist Greg Shaw gives voice to his sources. As a longtime colleague and friend of the family, he draws on his many travels and interviews with Soap and on previously unpublished writings, including a Soap family history penned by Mankiller, included here as the book’s prologue. Shaw offers a rich profile of Soap’s singular career—particularly as a champion of water rights. In managing public infrastructure projects, housing assistance, and water development in the Cherokee Nation, Soap has exemplified ga-du-gi, the Cherokee word for community members working together for the collective good. Shaw portrays a dynamic partnership between Soap and Mankiller. Together they reignited community development for the Cherokee people by listening to everyone, including the
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Charlie Soap and Greg Shaw
Magic City Books is proud to welcome Charlie Soap and Greg Shaw for a special event in celebration of the new biography, Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap on Wednesday November 20 at 7:00 pm in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books (221 E Archer Street).
Combining memoir, history, and current affairs, Last One Walking charts for the first time the life and work of Charlie Soap, husband of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
In telling this story, author and former journalist Greg Shaw gives voice to his sources. As a longtime colleague and friend of the family, he draws on his many travels and interviews with Soap and on previously unpublished writings, including a Soap family history penned by Mankiller, included here as the book’s prologue. Shaw offers a rich profile of Soap’s singular career–particularly as a champion of water rights.
Last One Walking is available now at Magic City Books or you can order a copy online to have signed by Greg and Charlie and shipped out after the event: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/last-one-walking/3005.
About Last One Walking
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