{"id":49810,"date":"2014-03-27T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/?p=49810"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:41:06","slug":"cherokee-word-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/2014\/03\/27\/cherokee-word-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cherokee Word for Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2014\/04\/CherokeeWordWater2.jpg\" alt=\"CherokeeWordWater2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/>April 4, 2014<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>The Cherokee Word for Water<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0is a feature-length motion\u00a0picture\u00a0that tells the story of the work that led\u00a0Wilma Mankiller to become\u00a0the first\u00a0modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.<em>\u00a0<\/em>It is a\u00a0feature-length motion picture inspired\u00a0by the true story of the struggle for,\u00a0opposition to, and ultimate success of\u00a0a rural Cherokee community to bring\u00a0running water to their families by using\u00a0the traditional concept of \u201cgadugi \u201c\u2013\u00a0working together to solve a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the early 1980s,\u00a0<em>The Cherokee Word For Water<\/em>\u00a0begins in the homes of a rural\u00a0Oklahoma community where many houses lack running water and others are\u00a0little more than shacks. After centuries of being dehumanized and dispossessed of their land and identity, the people no longer feel they have power or control over their lives or future.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the true story of the Bell Waterline Project, the movie is about a community coming together to improve its life condition. Led by Wilma Mankiller, who went on to become the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, and fullblood Cherokee organizer Charlie Soap, they join forces and build nearly twenty miles of waterline using a community of volunteers. In the process, they inspire the community to trust each other, and reawaken universal indigenous values of reciprocity and interconnectedness. The successful completion of the waterline sparked a movement of similar self-help projects across the Cherokee nation and in Indian country that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:\u00a0<\/strong>Tim Kelly and Charlie Soap, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place:<\/strong>\u00a0Sateren Auditorium, Music Hall, 715 22nd Ave South<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a06:15 to 9:30 pm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reception 6:15-6:45<\/li>\n<li>Screening begins at 6:45<\/li>\n<li>Discussion follows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All events are free to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you to our sponsors<\/strong>: the <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies<\/span> Department, the Augsburg Native American Film Series, Native Americans in Philanthropy and the American Indian Cancer Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2014\/04\/NAP-logo-SMALL.jpg\" alt=\"NAP-logo-SMALL\" width=\"113\" height=\"138\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2014\/04\/AICAF_Logo_RGB-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"AICAF_Logo_RGB\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 2014 The Cherokee Word for Water\u00a0\u00a0is a feature-length motion\u00a0picture\u00a0that tells the story of the work that led\u00a0Wilma Mankiller to become\u00a0the first\u00a0modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.\u00a0It is a\u00a0feature-length motion picture inspired\u00a0by the true story of the struggle for,\u00a0opposition to, and ultimate success of\u00a0a rural Cherokee community to bring\u00a0running water to their families &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50880,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49810\/revisions\/50880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}