7:00pm - 8:00pm
7:00pm | Film Screening
Discussion to follow
Enjoy a screening of Kanàtenhs: When the Pine Needles Fall (2022, 22 min.) by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel followed by a conversation between Katsi’tsakwas, Niigaan Sinclair, and Sean Carleton.
As the writer, producer, director, and narrator, Katsi’tsakwas’ documentary Kanàtenhs: When the Pine Needles Fall focuses on the first day of a 78-day standoff between the Québec provincial police and the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Kanesatake in 1990. This documentary won the award for Best Canadian Short Film during the International First Peoples Festival in Montreal last year, and has screened at nearly 30 festivals around the world.
Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) documentarian, visual artist, and Indigenous Land Defender. She was well-known to the public when she was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the 1990 “Oka” Crisis; to protect the Pines from the expansion of a 9 hole golf course in “Oka”. she has been a human rights activist since 1990 and continues this work today. Katsi’tsakwas holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, majoring in Studio Art, and a Diploma from the New York Film Academy. Her filmmaking is inspired by a variety of topics, such as nature, other artists, and everyday life.
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Panelists
Dr. Niigaanwewidam Sinclair
Dr. Niigaanwewidam Sinclair
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, PhD., (he/him/his) is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and an associate professor at the University of Manitoba. He regularly speaks and writes about Indigenous issues for national and international media outlets and his writing appears bi weekly in the Winnipeg Free Press. He has also published short stories in books like The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama and graphic novels like This Place: 150 Years Retold. He is the 2018 recipient of a National Newspaper Award for best Canadian Columnist and also was named 2019 Peace Educator of the Year by the Peace and Justice Studies Association at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Niigaan is co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water and Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories and the editorial director of The Debwe Series (published by HighWater Press).
Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton is a settler scholar and assistant professor in the departments of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling (UBC Press, 2022).
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