Is it ironic that the 2022 American Women Quarters Program....

jessewvu

features a woman by the name of Wilma MANKILLER?

jshaulis

Legit was thinking the same thing a day or two ago.

younique

The only reason my enrollment exists lol.

ricko

I wonder if there will be a quarter for Aileen Wuornos. Cheers, RickO

BStrauss3

No, it's not.

Irony: "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect."

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-mankiller

Wilma Mankiller is honored and recognized as the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She is also the first woman elected as chief of a major Native tribe. She spent her remarkable life fighting for the rights of American Indians.
Born on November 18, 1945, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma was the sixth of eleven children born to Charley Mankiller and Clara Irene Sitton. The surname "Mankiller," Asgaya-dihi (Cherokee syllabary: ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ) in the Cherokee language, refers to a traditional Cherokee military rank, like a captain or major.

PerryHall

I would say Mankiller is more "disturbing" than "ironic".

Zoins

@jessewvu said:
Is it ironic that the 2022 American Women Quarters Program....
features a woman by the name of Wilma MANKILLER?

Here's some info from Wikipedia the name, which is Cherokee. It seems like it means "warrior", either physical or spiritual.

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was born on November 18, 1945, in the Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Clara Irene (née Sutton) and Charley Mankiller.[4][5] Her father was a full-blooded Cherokee,[4][6] whose ancestors had been forced to relocate to Indian Territory from Tennessee over the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.[7][6][8] Her mother descended from Scots-Irish and English immigrants who had first settled in Virginia and North Carolina in the 1700s. Her maternal grandparents came to Oklahoma in the early 1900s from Georgia and Arkansas, respectively.[4][Notes 1] The surname "Mankiller", Asgaya-dihi (Cherokee syllabary: ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ) in the Cherokee language, refers to a traditional Cherokee military rank, similar to a captain or major,[10] or a shaman with the ability to avenge wrongs through spiritual methods.[11] Alternative spellings are Outacity[12] or Ontassetè.[13] Wilma's given Cherokee name, meaning flower, was A-ji-luhsgi.[14] When Charley and Irene married in 1937,[15] they settled on Charley's father, John Mankiller's[Notes 2] allotment, known as "Mankiller Flats", near Rocky Mountain in Adair County, Oklahoma, which he had received in 1907 as part of the government policy of forced assimilation for Native American people.[17][18][19]

BuffaloIronTail

I just hope Amelia Earhart makes the cut.

Pete

jessewvu

@BuffaloIronTail said:
I just hope Amelia Earhart makes the cut.

Pete

in light of the OP, pun intended?

johnny9434

I was starting to wonder if I was going to see a black widow spider when I started reading, wow