Minnesota State University, Mankato is hosting a post-lecture reception with Chief Wilma Mankiller, the speaker at the third annual Carol Ortman Perkins Lectureship Oct. 25.
Tickets to the reception are $25 ($10 for Minnesota State Mankato students). Higher levels of donations are also available. A $100 donation will provide admission to the reception and the donor's name in the lecture program. At $200, the donor receives admission to the reception, name recognition in the program and a DVD of Mankiller's lecture.
Additionally, adding $10 to any of the above packages will sponsor a student ticket to the reception. All proceeds go to the Carol Ortman Perkins Lectureship Series in Women's Studies. Past speakers were actress and feminist Kathy Najimy and Publisher Gloria Steinem.
Mankiller is the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and author of several books including Every Day is a Good Day; Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, and The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History.
Mankiller helped facilitate the establishment of an Office of Indian Justice within the U.S. Department of Justice and has met with Presidents Reagan, Bush, Sr., and Clinton at the White House to present critical tribal issues. She has worked on significant tax issues for the Cherokee Nation, helped establish several rural healthcare facilities and served as the first director of the Cherokee Nation Community Development Department. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"An Evening With Wilma Mankiller" takes place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, and admission is free and open to the public. Tickets for the reception immediately following can be reserved online at www.mnsu.edu/alumni/mankiller. Phone orders are also accepted at 507-389-3235.
The event is sponsored by the Carol Ortman Perkins Lectureship Fund, the Minnesota State Mankato Women's Center, the Department of Women's Studies and student activity fees.
The deadline to reserve tickets for the private reception is Monday Oct. 23.
Representatives of Mankato's Coughlan Companies will present Mankiller with a copy of Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation, a book published by Coughlan subsidiary Compass Point Books.
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