Madison Whitekiller is an American of Native ancestry who was crowned the 2017-18 Miss Cherokee on August 26, 2017.
[1][2] She competed against six other young women for the Miss Cherokee crown[1] in a competition held each year in conjunction with the Cherokee National Holiday.
[3] The competition judges contestants on their use of the Cherokee language, their cultural and platform presentations, and their responses to impromptu questions.
[1] For her cultural presentation during the competition, Whitekiller focused on empowering Cherokee women through the traditional Cherokee story of why the corn husk doll has no face.
[1] She previously served as Junior Miss Cherokee 2015–16.