The Warrior Women Project Public Film Screening & Discussion with Madona Thunder Hawk, Marcy Gilbert & Dr. Elizabeth Castle

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1 - 2:30 PM

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.

Room 110-Auditorium

Reese Center

The Ohio State University at Newark

Newark, OH 43055

Sponsored by Ohio State Newark Cultural Arts and Events Committee, Office of Student Life, Native, American Indian & Indigenous Studies Organization (AIISO) student club, GAHDT/IAH grant, the Program in American Indian Studies and Newark Earthworks Center.

For more information, contact John Low, Ph.D, Native American & Indigenous Studies and Vorley Taylor, Multicultural Affairs.

• Warrior Women Film.com
• Viewer Discussion Guide
• PBS SOCAL Warrior Women | Promo Video