''Barking Water'' is a 2009 independent feature film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo that premiered at the

2009 Sundance Film Festival The 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. Award winners *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''We Live in Public'' *Grand Jury Prize: ...

. Harjo's second feature film, it stars

Richard Ray Whitman Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor. He is enrolled in the Muscogee Nation and lives in Oklahoma.Lester, 619Lippard, 216 Early life and education Whitman was born in Claremore, Okl ...

, Casey Camp-Horinek,

Jon Proudstar Jon Santaanta Proudstar (born January 3, 1967, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American film actor, film & comic book writer, and director. He first appeared in '' Madhouse'' with John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley in 1990. Proudstar wrote the one-s ...

, Aaron Riggs, Laura Spencer, Quese iMC,

Ryan Red Corn The 1491s are a Native American sketch comedy group, with members based in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Montana. While the members' sketch comedy has had a growing cult following since the mid-2000s, and their videos since 2009, they are perhaps bes ...

, 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.Ted Fry
"Final trip together sometimes clumsy, often touching."
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Seattle Times ''The Seattle Times'' is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington st ...

'', April 16, 2010 . ''Barking Water'' was named best drama film at the 2009

American Indian Film Festival The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formati ...

, 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
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