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With her daughter Marcella Gilbert, Madonna Thunderhawk holds Best Documentary Feature trophy, presented for their independent movie \u201cWarrior Women,\u201d made in Lakota Territory about the legacy of the Red Power movement. (Photo by Talli Nauman)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

RAPID CITY \u2013 The cast and crew of the movie \u201cWarrior Women\u201d used their most recent award for Best Documentary Feature \u2014 at the 11th Annual Black Hills Film Festival on Feb. 20 \u2014 as an occasion to announce grassroots activities to protect Lakota and other communities from the proposed construction of the Keystone XL tar-sands crude oil pipeline.
\n\u201cWarrior Women\u201d cast members Madonna Thunderhawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert, on stage here at their film showing, said they banded together with other grandmothers, recently convincing the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to declare a state of emergency over the pipeline construction man-camps slated on four locations near Indian reservations in South Dakota.
\n\u201cWe are trying to prepare our communities for the effects of man-camps 50 and 60 miles from the reservation,\u201d Gilbert said. Increases in sex trafficking and other violence against women and girls have been linked to oil industry man-camps in North Dakota.
\n\u201cWarrior Women,\u201d indigenously co-directed and co-produced by Beth Castle and Christina D. King, was conceived as a gateway to an ongoing community organizing scheme, which they describe as \u201can innovative collaboration of scholarship, media, and activism that seeks to provide a forum for the Warrior Women of the Red Power Movement and current indigenous activists to tell their stories in their own words for the benefit of future generations.\u201d
\nIt all started when Castle, who is descended from the Pekowi band of the Shawnee in Ohio and has a PhD from Cambridge University in England, wrote her book Women Were the Backbone, Men Were the Jawbone: Native Women\u2019s Activism in the Red Power Movement.
\nBased on research for the book, this 64-minute retrospective follows Thunderhawk family members\u2019 experience in the Red Power movement from the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco to the Oceti Sakowin resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016.
\nIt smashes chauvinistic views of history to reveal how women and their children were vital to success in the human and civil rights struggles of the late 20th Century.
\nNo sooner was the picture premiered than did Castle establish the Water Protectors Oral History Project, inviting participants in the international indigenous-led pipeline standoff to participate. In its two years to date, the effort has gathered some 60 videos for free educational distribution online at waterprotectorscommunity.org\/<\/a>
\nMeanwhile, the movie has garnered not only the Black Hills Film Festival Award but also Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 San Francisco American Indian Film Festival; Best Documentary at the 2018 L.A. Skins Fest; Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 22nd Annual Cine las Americas International Film Festival in Austin, Texas; Best Documentary Short of 2019 at The Roxbury International Film Festival in Massachusetts; Best Documentary of 2019 at the 14th Vancouver International Women in Film Festival; and the Audience Award at the 2019 Annual Black Star Film Festival in Philadelphia.
\nBlack Hills Film Festival Co-Founder Chris VanNess said the screening committee chose to invite \u201cWarrior Women\u201d to the competition partly because of the way the filmmakers are utilizing the production for community organizing.
\nHowever, the award criteria does not include that consideration, she told the Native Sun News Today. \u201cWe pick the best films with the best stories, films that move you,\u201d she said.
\nThe criteria include direction, story, acting, sound, and editing. A panel of judges picks the top three productions and sends them \u201cto a professional from the industry\u201d to make the final decisions, VanNess said.
\n\u201cOur South Dakota films have to stand up with all the rest of them, so when they win, they really win,\u201d she said.
\nAs part of their organizing, the cast and crew promoted a South Dakota women\u2019s O\u2019maka Tokatakiya \u2014 Future Generations Ride, an outgrowth of the former Bigfoot Ride that annually attracts horseback riders to honor ancestors lost in the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee and pray for the future generations.
\nThunderhawk and other participants in the ride revived the 1970s Women of All Red Nations (WARN) t-shirt design and wore it in a symbolic border patrol along the southeastern boundary of the Cheyenne River Reservation \u201cto send a clear message to KXL and its incoming man camps: \u2018you are not welcome on our homelands\u2019.\u201d
\nThe event is recorded at the blog of Warrior Women Project Community Media, the latest outgrowth of the movie production and project.
\nThe team markets movie memorabilia, including the t-shirts, hats, lotion, and soap, to help support community organizing through purchases online and at screening events.<\/p>\n

(Contact Talli Nauman at talli.nauman@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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With her daughter Marcella Gilbert, Madonna Thunderhawk holds Best Documentary Feature trophy, presented for their independent movie \u201cWarrior Women,\u201d made in Lakota Territory about the legacy of the Red Power movement. (Photo by Talli Nauman) RAPID CITY \u2013 The cast and crew of the movie \u201cWarrior Women\u201d used their most <\/p>\n

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