4 Generations Documentary Film Series

Thundermaker Cultural Recovery and Preservation is about creating a sustainable space for future generations to continue living within the spiritual foundation that our ancestors have left for us, We have all the necessary tools and teachings that we need in order to do this, it’s about taking the time and initiative to put in the work and focus that’s needed to contribute to this already preexisting movement and cause. There are multiple organizations and communities that are working towards this same goal, we are doing are part to be proactive in helping to provide to the solution and not be apart of the problem. 

It has been our mission and goal to provide a space that will help our people step into the the roles of leadership for their communities, by way of providing job skills, trades, substance abuse recovery and spiritual growth through ceremonies and cultural teachings. We have access to various individuals already growing within the needed roles, driving their communities in a healthy and positive direction of growth and a necessary change. 

We want to utilize these people and create a large enough community that creates a global change in a direction that feeds our people in the way that’s needed. 

One of our goals currently is the creation to of a docuseries that begins with the telling of the story of a ceremony that took place in northern Arizona on the Navajo Reservation from 1987 to 2001, more specifically the reason why the ceremony was there in the first place. The land and people that hosted the ceremony were in the middle of a land struggle due to a mining company fabricating a dispute between the Navajo and the Hopi people, this dispute created an unnecessary change in the relationship that 2 peaceful people coexisted within.  The story we are presenting for the first installment of this series is about how the people came together for a cause that helped fend off the possibility of forced relocation, the family that allowed the people to gather and participate in a cause that gave hope and meaning to so many individuals who unknowingly craved community and belonging.

Our team has been fortunate enough to have created relationships with different elders who are allowing us to sit with them and film their stories and life experiences, and we believe we are living the current life within this freedom of spiritual awareness and belonging as a result of our elders maintaining their commitment to keeping these traditions and stories alive, its through them that we can continue to live this way of life as well as serve as contributors to the continuation of our existence through an oral tradition while also including the use of a visual platform as well