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We Will Speak (2023)

With fewer than 1,500 fluent speakers left, a small group of Cherokee activists race to save their language from disappearing.

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The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2019. While there are 430,000 Cherokee citizens in the three federally recognized tribes, fewer than an estimated 2,000 fluent speakers remain—the majority of whom are elderly. The covid pandemic has unfortunately hastened the course. Language activists, artists, and the youth must now lead the charge of urgent radical revitalization efforts to help save the language from the brink of extinction.

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Cast

  • Keli Gonzales Self
  • Carolyn Swepston Self
  • Schon Duncan Schon Duncan Self
  • Marion Scraper Self
  • Eda Scraper Self
  • Durbin Feeling Self
  • Clifton Petit Self
  • Weynema Smith Self
  • David Crawler Self
  • Betty Frogg Self
  • Clara Proctor Self
  • Cora Flute Self
  • Gil Jackson Self
  • Oleta Pritchett Self
  • Bo Lossiah Self
  • Marlene Ballard Self
  • Ann Arneach Self
  • Gary Wayne Vann Self

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