Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and focuses | dG1fNWxyYlUwZVpyS00
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00:00When I first went to work in Miama as an Indian counselor, it was still a good place.
00:17It is not a place that any of the Cherokees wanted to go, and so I would imagine the longing
00:26was to be as near the land that was as close to what we might have left behind.
00:35I got there the year before Tar Creek turned orange.
00:41When they were mining, they left piles and piles of the waste rock behind.
00:47There's a million gallons of heavy metals coming down that creek every day.
00:53It's time for that to stop.
00:57There's a chance that Tar Creek and that place can start over.