Members of the Brown community and the general public are invited to attend a series of events related to Wilma Mankiller and Native American and Indigenous Studies:

Wednesday, November 8

Native American and Indigenous Special Collections

4 p.m. in the Special Collections Reading Room at the John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St.

View recently acquired special collections materials related to Native American and Indigenous activism and political engagement.

Screening of Mankiller: Activist. Feminist. Cherokee Chief.

6 p.m. in the Willis Reading Room at the John Hay Library

Attend a screening of Mankiller: Activist. Feminist. Cherokee Chief (2017), a documentary film chronicling the life of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. The film’s director, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, will be in attendance.

Thursday, November 9

Discussion with the Filmmaker

5:30 p.m. in Room 305 of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 172 Meeting St.

Attend a discussion between Mankiller director Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Cherokee ancestry) and Kimberly Toney, Coordinating Curator for Native American & Indigenous Collections, John Hay Library and John Carter Brown Library.

Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

VALERIE RED-HORSE MOHL, Cherokee, is the CEO/founder of Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc., a film and television production company primarily focused on bringing important documentaries about overlooked Native American stories to the screen for which Red-Horse Mohl directs, produces, and writes.  She is also the President of Known, a finance and asset management company focused on eliminating the racial wealth gap. She previously founded the first Native American owned investment bank and currently holds seven FINRA registrations.  Additionally, she serves as the Advisory Board Chair of Stanford University’s Center for the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and teaches an undergraduate course on Entrepreneurship for Racial Equity at Stanford. She was inducted into the NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) Hall of Fame in 2008 and was recognized in 2022 as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women.

Sponsorship

The series of events is sponsored by Brown University Library, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and Brown Center for Students of Color (a cosponsor of the Native Heritage Series).

Accessibility

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please reach out to Lizette_Martinez@brown.edu as far in advance of the event as possible. Thank you.