Finding dawn a guide For Teaching and acTion 1 A Guide for TeAchinG And AcTion by fAy blAney AbouT The film dawn crey. ramona wilson. daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 aborigi-nal women who have gone missing or been murdered in canada over the past thirty years. in Finding.
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance is arguably Alanis Obomsawin’s most important film, documenting the military 1990 siege of a Mohawk reserve near Oka, Quebec, and its causes. I chose this film here because the celebrated Abenaki filmmaker told me recently: “For me a real documentary is when you are really listening to somebody.
Essay Samples. Scope of Depression in the Human Brain. 28 Nov 2017.. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. 24 Nov 2017. Abstract: This essay discusses how the film Kanehsatake deals with the European conquest of North America and its legacy. We see the themes of resistance and activism, as the documentary shows us the stand-off at OKA.
This 3-DVD box-set includes 4 digitally-remastered films made between 1993 and 2000: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, My Name is Kahentiiosta, Spudwrench Kahnawake Man and Rocks at Whiskey Trench, as well as a 100-page booklet of essays and background information, including photos and press clippings from the era.
Brochure essay by Jorge Manzano: Mercer Union’s presentation of the video installation Cultural Politics, Colonialism and Resistance incorporates four works. Alanis Obomsawin’s My Name Is Kahentiiosta, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao the Turtlelike, and Marlon E. Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy are originally works of film but, will be presented in a video format.
Canadians have a dark past that we should all be personally ashamed and humiliated of. First Nations people of Canada have almost always been the brunt of discrimination and inequalities in Canada. A prime example of this treatment was the Mohawk people in the film, Kanehsatake 270 years of resistance.
Peace Camps in Quebec and Manitoba to support the Mohawks in the “Oka Crisis”, Canada, 1990. (very explicitly, in the case of the Manitoba action) to provide a harmonious example of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people living cooperatively together.. and published in Alanis Obomsawin's film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.
Abstract: The airing of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance on Witness would not have been possible without the drafting of a new test policy, CBC's Guidelines for Documentaries and for Point-of-View Programming, which is based on a pluralistic conception of balance. This paper examines the film's relationship to aspects of the news discourse.
This study discusses the implications of polyphony in Brand's poetry and two documentaries, Sisters in the Struggle and Long Time Comin', and in Obomsawin's documentaries, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance and Rocks at Whiskey Trench. All evidences demonstrate fine specimens of applied poetics, faithful to their ethics of resistance.
Three years later, her blockbuster documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance offered the Canadian public and the world a fuller picture of the Oka Crisis from behind Mohawk resistance lines. Hi-Ho Mistahey!, released in 2013, tells the story of Shannen Koostachin of Attawapiskat and her dream for equitable education.