INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE: NOW AND THEN
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An exploration of how Alaska Natives have had to navigate statehood, concepts of blood quantum, ANCSA, boarding schools, and cultural erasure. An ode to hope and resilience in Native communities.
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Director(s):
''Wáats''asdíyei Joe YatesProducer(s):
''Wáats''asdíyei Joe YatesWriter(s):
''Wáats''asdíyei Joe YatesCast:
Aasaanaaq Kairaiuak - Yup''ik Haliehana Stepetin - Unangan Holly Guise - Unangan Tosha Hotch - Tlingit Marcella Asicksik - TsimshianPresented as Part Of INDIGENOUS LENS SHORTS
THE ROAD
The story of how a controversial road project through a Wildlife Refuge along Alaska''s Aleutian chain has bee...
8 min | Cale Green | | WORLD PREMIERE | English
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IVALU
A young Indigenous girl''s search for her missing sister takes her on a journey following a raven across the v...
16 min | Anders Walter | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) | English
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MI’KMA’KI: GWITNA’Q (LAND OF THE MI’KMAW: TRAVEL BY CANOE)
For the Mi’kmaq community of Miawpukek First Nation, reviving the tradition of Birch Bark Canoe building bec...
22 min | Wendell G. Collier | | US PREMIERE | English | English
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NA SAVI
A fourteen year old girl's father is brokering her marriage deal. She will have to choose between her indigeno...
15 min | Sofia Ayerdi | | WORLD PREMIERE | Spanish | English
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THE ROOF
A leaky roof. And the truth. After being sent to stay with their grandfather, a Northern Cheyenne teen discove...
20 min | Alexander Bocchieri | | HAWAI''I PREMIERE | English | English
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