'THE CHEROKEE WORD FOR WATER' What: Film drama based on the story of the Cherokee Nation's Wilma Mankiller and Charlie Soap and the early 1980s development of a waterline in Bell, where residents ...

Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. The movie is told ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A film that tells the story of a Native American activist will inspire people to take similar action in their own lives, according to the exhibitor. “We can all learn a lot about ...

The cinematic story of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first modern female chief of the Cherokee Nation, will screen — free to the public — in four communities next week. “The Cherokee Word for Water,” ...

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Charlie Soap (center), visits Thursday with Euchee Tribe official Andrew Skeeter and his wife, Carmelita Skeeter, CEO of the Indian Health Care Resource Center in Tulsa, before a private screening of ...

This is the story of how Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, and activist Charlie Soap helped the people of Bell, Oklahoma, dig an 18-mile trench to bring running water and ...

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