Drive-In Screening: WARRIOR WOMEN
Schedule
Wed Oct 20 2021 at 06:30 pm
Location
Copper Mountain College | Joshua Tree, CA
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Join us for an outdoor screening of WARRIOR WOMEN, as part of the Morongo Basin Big Read screening series.FREE (Reservations required)
GATES: 6pm / START TIME: 6.45pm
BYOCC: Bring Your Own Camping Chair
Please arrive by 6.30pm
Filmgoers are asked to respect the safety of fellow attendees by wearing masks when not seated. Capacity is limited in order to ensure a safe experience for all.
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In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families.
​Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values.
Through a circular Indigenous style of storytelling, this film explores what it means to navigate a movement and motherhood and how activist legacies are passed down and transformed from generation to generation in the context of colonizing government that meets Native resistance with violence.
​Documentary, 2018, 65 minutes.
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A program of the NEA Big Read Morongo Basin presented by Arts Connection, the Arts Council of San Bernardino County in partnership with with Copper Mountain College and the Copper Mountain College Foundation.
The NEA Big Read aims to build community and inspire conversation through the joy of sharing a good book. To learn more about the Big Read and for our full schedule of events, visit: www.BigReadMorongoBasin.com
The NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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Where is it happening?
Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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