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Chandler-Gilbert Community College's Diversity Committee, Student Life and Leadership, and Eagle Feathers student organization presented "Strong Native Woman" on Thursday, November 3, 2005. More than 200 Chandler-Gilbert students and employees and students from Ira Hayes High School attended the presentation held in the college's Performing Arts Center. "Strong Native Woman" is a one-act play written by David Shorey, Ojibwe playwright and performed by three Dine students from Rough Rock, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. This ensemble group is called "The Native American Theater Project." The play chronicles the lives of native women from the present, including Wilma Mankiller, Mary Crowdog, and Rigaberta Menchu Tu; women from the past who discuss the Long Walk, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee; and voices to the future with a native women's perspective on the direction native people should be taking. The piece is presented through moving dialogue and modern dance. "Strong Native Woman" is the 2004 winner of the National Native American Drama and Fine Arts Festival, runner-up at the Many Faces/Many Stories Drama Festival, winner of the San Juan College Four Corners Drama Festival and winner of the A.I.A. state competition for one-act plays. It has been selected to represent the U.S. in the 2006 International Drama Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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