World War II Homefront Hero Echo Rider

Echo Rider was a young school teacher when she left Sequoyah County to join the home front war effort during WWII. A veritable Cherokee “Rosie the Riveter”, she worked as a painter, first on airplanes, then on Liberty ships in California, before returning to the Cherokee Nation where she lives today.

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