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SUMMARY:Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Film Screening: We Still Live Here by Anne Makepeace
DESCRIPTION:Description:\n\nWe Still Live Here    s Nutayune n is the story of the revitalization of the Wampanoag language\, the first time a language with no native speakers has been revived in this country. The Wampanoag's ancestors ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England and lived to regret it. Nevertheless\, through resilience and courage they kept their identity alive and remained on their ancestral lands. Now a cultural revival is taking place.\n\n \n\nThe story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe\, an intrepid\, 30-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.\n\n \n\nThese events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their ancestral language\, lead Jessie to a earn herself a master's degree 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. With commitment\, study groups\, classes\, and communitywide effort\, many are approaching fluency. Jessie's young daughter Mae is the first native speaker in more than a hundred years.\n\n \n\nAbout the filmmaker:\n\nAnne Makepeace has been a writer\, producer\, and director of award-winning independent films for more than 20 years. Her films include We Still Live Here    s Nutayune n which won the Full Frame Inspiration Award and the Moving Mountains Prize at Telluride MountainFilm\; I.M. Pei: Building China Modern\, (PBS/American Masters 2010)\; Rain in a Dry Land (lead show on P.O.V. 2007) winner of the Full Frame Working Films Award\, Emmy nomination\; Robert Capa in Love and War\, (PBS/American Masters 2003)\, national Prime Time Emmy Award\; Coming to Light (PBS/American Masters 2003)\, short-listed for an Oscar and winner of many prizes\; and Baby It's You (lead show on P.O.V. 1998)\, Whitney Biennial 2000. Makepeace also wrote the screenplay for Thousand Pieces of Gold and the American Experience documentary Ishi\, the Last Yahi.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Description</span></span></strong><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:</span></span><br />\n<em><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">We Still Live Here &ndash\; &Acirc\;s Nutayune&acirc\;n&nbsp\;</span></span></em><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">is the story of the revitalization of the Wampanoag language\, the first time a language with no native speakers has been revived in this country. The Wampanoag&rsquo\;s ancestors ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England and lived to regret it. Nevertheless\, through resilience and courage they kept their identity alive and remained on their ancestral lands. Now a cultural revival is taking place.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe\, an intrepid\, 30-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 &mdash\; why couldn&rsquo\;t they speak English? Later\, she realized they were speaking Wampanoag\, a language no one had used for more than a century.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their ancestral language\, lead Jessie to a earn herself a master&rsquo\;s degree in linguistics at MIT\, and result in something that had never been done before &ndash\; bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations with no native speakers. With commitment\, study groups\, classes\, and communitywide effort\, many are approaching fluency. Jessie&rsquo\;s young daughter Mae is the first native speaker in more than a hundred years.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">About the filmmaker</span></span></strong><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">:</span></span><br />\n<span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif">Anne Makepeace has been a writer\, producer\, and director of award-winning independent films for more than 20 years. Her films include&nbsp\;<em>We Still Live Here &ndash\; &Acirc\;s Nutayune&acirc\;n</em>&nbsp\;which won the Full Frame Inspiration Award and the Moving Mountains Prize at Telluride MountainFilm\;&nbsp\;<em>I.M. Pei: Building China Modern</em>\, (PBS/American Masters 2010)\;&nbsp\;<em>Rain in a Dry Land</em>&nbsp\;(lead show on&nbsp\;<em>P.O.V.</em>&nbsp\;2007) winner of the Full Frame Working Films Award\, Emmy nomination\;&nbsp\;<em>Robert Capa in Love and War</em>\, (PBS/American Masters 2003)\, national Prime Time Emmy Award\;&nbsp\;<em>Coming to Light</em>&nbsp\;(PBS/American Masters 2003)\, short-listed for an Oscar and winner of many prizes\; and&nbsp\;<em>Baby It&rsquo\;s You</em>&nbsp\;(lead show on&nbsp\;<em>P.O.V.</em>&nbsp\;1998)\, Whitney Biennial 2000. Makepeace also wrote the screenplay for&nbsp\;<em>Thousand Pieces of Gold</em>&nbsp\;and the&nbsp\;<em>American Experience</em>&nbsp\;documentary&nbsp\;<em>Ishi\, the Last Yahi.</em></span></span>
LOCATION:The Media Center The Atwood Museum 347 Stage Harbor Rd. Chatham MA 02633
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