And So We Walked

And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears is a documentary, solo theater project written and performed by Cherokee performance artist and community activist DeLanna Studi and directed and produced by former Kenan Institute for the Arts Executive Director Corey Madden.

Triad Stage hosted the play’s North Carolina premiere in April 2017 at the Hanesbrands Theatre.

As part of the project, the Kenan Institute for the Arts and the Cherokee Historical Association also hosted the Native American Theatre Projec (opens in new tab)t, a three-week “creative co-laboratory” in Cherokee, NC, sponsored in part by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation (opens in new tab).

Other project partners include:

• Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (opens in new tab)
• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (opens in new tab)
• Autry Museum of the American West (opens in new tab)
• Native Voices Theatre (opens in new tab)
• Center for the Study of the American South (opens in new tab)
• American Indian Center at UNC – Chapel Hill (opens in new tab)
• Process Series at UNC – Chapel Hill (opens in new tab)
• Playmakers Repertory – Chapel Hill (opens in new tab)
• MAP Fund (opens in new tab)