Moving Mountains Prize: The Wampanoag Language

The 2011 Moving Mountains Prize at Mountainfilmin Telluride was awarded to a film by Anne Makepeace, called We Still Live Here, which is about Jessie Little Doe and her community’s effort to bring back what was, essentially, the lost language of her tribe, the Wampanoag. This important work was supported by a prestigious MacArthur Genius Award, but the $3,000 award from Mountainfilm’s Moving Mountains Prize enabled the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project to launch their first Children's Language Immersion Camp, a successful three-week event.