‘Warrior Women’ doc shows at Putnam
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A documentary about Native American women will be shown for free Saturday, May 18 at the Putnam Giant Screen Theater, 1717 W. 12th St., Davenport.
In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation as a community of extended families, according to a synopsis of the 2018 film, “Warrior Women.”
It is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists’ children – including her daughter Marcella Gilbert – 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 women are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for indigenous cultural values.
Through their story, “Warrior Women” explores what it means to balance a movement with motherhood and how activist legacies are passed down from generation to generation in the face of a government that has continually met Native resistance with mass violence,” according to a Putnam release.
After the film (starting at 5 p.m.), the theater will host a Q&A with Marcella Gilbert, a Lakota and Dakota community organizer with a focus on food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. You can learn more about Marcella and the “Warrior Women” film on the Good Docs site HERE.
Watch the film’s trailer below. The showing is free to the public.
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