Creator and Performer DeLanna Studi
Producer & Director Corey Madden
Madden and Studi in The Armory lobby. Photo by Kate Szrom. Courtesy of Portland Center Stage at The Armory
DeLanna Studi in And So We Walked at The Armory. Photo by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv. Courtesy of Portland Center Stage at The Armory
And So We Walked, Triad Stage, April 22-30, 2017. Photo by Owens Daniel Photography.
Thomas Studie at the Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
A plaque marking a tree "Planted on October 29, 1988 in memory of the 4,000 Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears -- 1838."
DeLanna Studi interviews Barbara Duncan for the project
Research involved hours of taped interviews. Jerry Wolf tells the tale of the "Mouse Who Played Stickball"
A modern road along The Trail of Tears in Cherokee National Forest
Thomas Studie examines buckshot embedded in a Trail of Tears marker
Research included a tour of the Hair Conrad Cabin, one of the newest certified sites on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail.
2016 Native American Theatre Project participants. See more photos from the project here.
Creator and Performer DeLanna Studi and her father Thomas Studie
Research interview with Dawn Arneach, Cherokee Storyteller