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Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle: Warrior Women

Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle, Warrior Women, 2018. Photo: Khyber Jones, courtesy ITVS and Vision Maker Media.

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Area Premiere
Featuring film subjects Madonna Thunder Hawk (Lakota) and Marcy Gilbert (Lakota) and director Elizabeth A. Castle (Pekowi Band of Shawnee) in person

“This is our time. You gotta be ready to drop everything and go if you feel it’s important enough.”—Madonna Thunder Hawk

Warrior Women is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for Native rights in the American Indian Movement (AIM). Beginning in 1970s, the film unveils a female perspective of major moments of AIM and their relationship to Indigenous teachings and examines the impact of their political struggles on the next generation. 2018, DCP, US, 64 minutes.

Directors’ Statement
As Native Americans and Native descendants, respectively, we are interested in pushing the visual boundaries of traditional documentary filmmaking to create a more atemporal experience that better conveys how we and our main characters actually see and engage with the world as Indigenous women. Known as the 4th World, this context creates space for us to be ourselves, rather than filter our stories through a European worldview of leadership, power, and identity. To achieve this lens-shift in the film, we made Warrior Women by trying to maximize the storytelling potential of art and design as it relates to intergenerational trauma, loss, settler colonialism, sexual violence, connection to land, reclaiming Native identity, and ultimately the decolonizing of our minds and spirits in an expression of “unapologetic Indian-ness.”

 

Free childcare will be available in the 8th floor Garden Terrace Room (6:30–9:30 pm) for children between 4–12 years old. The childcare is provided by Walker staff and educators and will include activities while their parents/guardians attend Warrior Women. Children must be potty-trained to attend.

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