Friday, April 29, 2011

"WE STILL LIVE HERE" Dir. Anne Makepeace interviewed by Joseph James Bellamy

We Still Live Here is an important film which every modern-day American should see. - Reel Zine


WE STILL LIVE HERE
      Âs Nutayuneân
tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. Now they are bringing their language home again.
The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe, an intrepid, thirty-something Wampanoag social worker, began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. Jessie was perplexed and a little annoyed– why couldn’t they speak English? Later, she realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century. These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanaog communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their language, lead Jessie to a Masters in Linguistics at MIT, and result in something that had never been done before – bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations with no Native speakers.

"We Still Live Here" plays at The Brattle Theater
2:15 PM Saturday, April 30th
We Still Live Here is part of The International Film Festival of Boston.

http://www.makepeaceproductions.com

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