Tue, Sep 30
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Charlie Soap, Greg Shaw, Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap
Combining memoir, history, and current affairs, "Last One Walking" charts for the first time the life and work of Charlie Soap, husband of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, and influential Cherokee community organizer.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 30, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Purchase Last One Walking ($32.95, hardcover) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
In telling the 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a longtime colleague and friend of the family, he draws on his many travels and interviews with Soap and on previously unpublished writings, including a Soap family history penned by Mankiller, included here as the book's prologue.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…