This video was created in partnership between Children of the Earth High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Native Women's Association of Canada. The intent was for young aboriginal females to use art and video as a medium to share what residential schools, intergenerational effects, and reconciliation means to them.
The Wounded Knee incident began February 27, 1973 when about 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The grassroots protest followed the failure of their effort to impeach the elected tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents; they also protested the United States government's…
Native American veterans candidly talk about their perspectives on war and warfare in intimate portraits that reveal a complex relationship with today’s changing world.
Shot on location by Simona Piantieri in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, on an idea by Max Carocci, the documentary accompanies the traveling exhibition he curated for the British Museum Warriors of the Plains: Two Hundred Years of Ritual and Honour.
The film complements…
This video was the result of a one week film workshop I held on the Eden Valley First Nations reserve. People who had previously never acted, never used a camera or a boom mic, came together to shoot a film with guidance from me as first-time director and editor. Sure, the lighting was far from perfect, the direction amateur, but the story has enormous heart particularly from our main actor who sees his life in this film. In anycase, that's what storytelling…
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