Written and produced by Art Shulman, NOT ONE MORE FOOT OF LAND! will be performed at the Secret Rose Theater in the Los Angeles area. Kristina Lloyd is the Director, an award winning stage and film director. The play opens in February, and we'd love you to be a part of it.
NOT ONE MORE FOOT OF LAND! follows the life of the most controversial Cherokee Indian who ever lived, a man still considered a traitor by many in his tribe, but a savior by others. His name was Major Ridge, and he lived through one of the most shameful episodes in our nation's history, an event called The Trail of Tears, in which the United States government forced the Cherokee tribe to move from their ancestral lands in the South to west of the Mississippi.
Imagine that! A whole tribe, thousands of people, not allowed to stay in their homes and on their land, but evicted through military force. It actually happened, in the mid-1800's. Thousands of Cherokee perished on this long and often wintry journey, fully 25% of the entire Cherokee Nation.
The producer and director have lined up some terrific actors, including many fine Native-American actors, and intend to put up a first-class production that will run for 8 weeks and hopefully will gain the attention it deserves because it covers how our nation, at one point in its past, dealt with a minority group that was "inconvenient" to the majority population.
This is an important story we are telling. It is based on a life of the most controversial Cherokee who ever lived. It describes how he was involved in a shameless episode in out nation's history -- the forced removal of Native-Americans from the land they'd lived on for centuries, the home of their ancestors, to other land a thousand miles away.So, please support our production of NOT ONE MORE FOOT OF LAND! It is gonna be a great show!
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