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Barking Water
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'Barking Water' is a 2009 independent feature film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Harjo's second feature film, it stars Richard Ray Whitman, Casey Camp-Horinek, Jon Proudstar, Aaron Riggs, Laura Spencer, Quese iMC, Ryan Red Corn, and Beau Harjo.
The film portrays a road trip by a dying man and his former lover across Oklahoma to visit friends and family, including his daughter and granddaughter in Wewoka, the capital of the Seminole Nation.Stephen Holden, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/movies/12barking.html?_r=0 "A Road Trip to the End of the Road"], 'The New York Times', May 11, 2010.Ted Fry, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160326232739/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-224138517.html "Final trip together sometimes clumsy, often touching."] 'Seattle Times', April 16, 2010 .
'Barking Water' was named best drama film at the 2009 American Indian Film Festival, and Casey Camp-Horinek was named best actress.Angelica Lawson, "American Indian Feature Filmmakers and Popular Culture", in Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman. ed., 'American Indians and Popular Culture', (ABC-CLIO, 2012), , pp. 98-99. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UjQ8VSkAGX4C&lpg=PA99&dq=%22barking%20water%22%20%22american%20indian%20film%22&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q=%22barking%20water%22%20%22american%20indian%20film%22&f=false Excerpts available] at Google Books.
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