We Will Speak
2023/03/23 • Released
With fewer than 1,500 fluent speakers left, a small group of Cherokee activists race to save their language from disappearing.
Overview
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.
Director : Michael McDermit
Casts
Schon Duncan
Self
Recommended
Re-Births
March 16, 2021
Toxic
March 1, 2008
Six: Inside
January 1, 2009
Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
August 21, 2001
Dirty Money: The Man at the Top
March 11, 2020
Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
January 1, 2010
We Were There: True Love
April 21, 2012
O Palmenbaum
December 27, 2000
Musangwe: Fight Club
October 1, 2007
Daphne
January 1, 1990
The Cave of the Silken Web
August 21, 1967
A Christmas Carol
November 8, 2018
Girls Fight Club
June 18, 2009
How to Make a Dead Man Float
September 27, 2018
Star
Six Weeks to Twelve Years
September 30, 2020
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer
March 1, 1990
Qwerty
August 16, 2007
Fortune Salon
November 11, 2009
Kleine Leute mal ganz groß
December 18, 1958