'THE CHEROKEE WORD FOR WATER' What: Film drama based on the story of the Cherokee Nation's Wilma Mankiller and Charlie Soap and the early 1980s development of a waterline in Bell, where residents ...

Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. The movie is told ...

PORT TOWNSEND — At first look, the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic, “The Cherokee Word for Water,” is about Wilma Mankiller. The larger picture, though, spotlights community members getting ...

Charlie Soap (center), visits Thursday with Euchee Tribe official Andrew Skeeter and his wife, Carmelita Skeeter, CEO of the Indian Health Care Resource Center in Tulsa, before a private screening of ...

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