Shash Jaa’ (Bears Ears) is a giant stretch of land in southeastern Utah, about 1.35 million acres of rocky and rugged wilderness. This region is sacred land to local Native American tribes, and in 2015 five nations came together to form the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, an effort to protect their homeland from development and… Read more »
Through a circular indigenous style of storytelling, Warrior Women relates the lifelong struggle of a Lakota mother and daughter in the American Indian Movement’s fight for Native liberation from the 1970s to protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, ND in 2016. The women of the American Indian Movement fight from a vulnerable place… Read more »
A women’s craving for a connection with her son, which is hindered by alcoholism.
Angelique Mott (Julia Jones), a young Anishinaabe woman, embarks on a journey with her new husband Charlie (Charlie Carrick), a Metis voyageur who has just been hired by the corrupt copper hunter Cyrus Mendenhall (Aden Young) to search the shores of Lake Superior in 1845. Despite the warnings from her grandmother, Green Thunderbird (Tantoo Cardinal),… Read more »
