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Cancelled: WTTR: "Warrior Women"

This event is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for the fall!

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.

Bartos Theatre (E15)
co-sponsored by the LIST Visual Arts Center, Indigenous Peoples Advocacy Committee (IPAC), ICEO, and the MIT Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering (AISES).
6:30pm Pizza
7pm Screening
Followed by Q&A with Director & Producer Elizabeth A. Castle
Part of the Women Take the Reel film festival.

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