Cherokee woman slain in Iraq named Oklahoman of the Year
Oklahoma: Fern Holland, a member of the Cherokee Nation, has been named Oklahoman of the Year for 2004 by Oklahoma Today magazine. Holland, 33, was killed in a roadside ambush March 9 near Hillah, Iraq, where she worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority as a women's rights expert. Holland had also served in the Peace Corps in Namibia and helped establish legal aid clinics for abused women in refugee camps in Guinea in West Africa. "Fern Leona Holland understood that she was at great risk because of her work, but expressed to her family that she loved the work she was doing and that many Iraqi women were depending upon her," said Cherokee chief Chad Smith. "[She] was assassinated in Iraq because of her work and she died as a warrior fighting for her beliefs and seeking to improve the lives of others."
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