Home and where you belong are consistent themes of Red Snow, even as the film bounces around in establishing the significance of those themes.
Dylan Nadazeau (Asivak Koostachin) is a Canadian soldier fighting in Afghanistan. Nadazeau is also from the Gwich'in First Nations people.
The Taliban ends up capturing the soldiers, double crossed by their interpreter Aman (Shafin Karim). The interrogator is convinced Nadazeau is a spy because his notebook is in Athabaskan. The words are for his love for his girlfriend back home.
The Taliban interrogator explains the irony of a Canadian soldier fighting in someone else's home while Canada occupies the solider's homeland.
The movie shows off Dylan's life growing up with his grandmother (Tantoo Cardinal). Dylan bonds with his young cousin Asana (Miika Bryce Whiskeyjack).
Aman is caught in the need to protect his own family, which is why he turned on the Canadian soldiers. Aman is a teacher, which is of little value in the Taliban world.
Marie Clements, as writer and director, filmed in Canada in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia, which is not apparent from seeing the film. Her portrayal of Dylan trapped in a thankless war in Afghanistan. His entry into the army is conflicted in that Canada, the country for which he is fighting, doesn't do well by Indigenous people back home.
The film shifts with Dylan and Aman's Pashtun family back on the same side and on the run. Dylan bonds with Aman's young boy, who reminds Dylan of Asana.
Getting through the first half of the film is difficult. The second half of the film is worth the rough patches of the first half.
An Indigenous story set in the Afghanistan war is an intriguing way to tell a story in Canada and also not Canada. The lessons learned are impactful yet the film is still entertaining.
Dance Me Outside is a film co-written by Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar and directed by Bruce McDonald. A film about Indigenous characters written by white people adapted from a book written by a white person.
This would be difficult to juggle in 2022, but the film came out in 1994.
Silas Crow (Ryan Black) and Frank Fencepost (Adam Beach) are best friends and our protagonists. They talk of becoming mechanics but have hit a plateau where they don't quite know where they are going. Silas also want to be a writer but doesn't realize the potential of the stories in front of them.
They have girlfriends: Silas is with Sadie (Jennifer Podemski) while Frank is with Poppy (Sandrine Holt). Sadie wants more from Silas.
The reserve community is upset over the death of an Indigenous woman and the light sentence given to Clarence Gaskill (Hugh Dillon).
The other major development is Frank's sister Illianna (Lisa Lacroix), who comes back to the community with a white lawyer husband (Kevin Hicks). They can't get pregnant so she gets help from her former lover Gooch (Michael Greyeyes), who just got out of prison.
The early part of the film is a bit slow, more of a slice of life from the characters. The second half is the plan to get revenge on Clarence.
If you are on the fence about this film, Dance Me Outside marks the full-length feature film debut for Podemski and Greyeyes. The film marks the acting debut for Dillon, who ended up in a few Bruce McDonald films, such as Hard Core Logo. Dillon, who started out as a musician, contributes to the soundtrack.
While Dillon doesn't have much screen time, Podemski and Greyeyes show the potential of what we have seen from them since this film was made. In a start of a tradition of sorts, Podemski's sister Tamara has a small role in the film, her screen debut.
The Rez was the follow-up TV series that ran 19 episodes on CBC between 1996-1998. The show featured Black, Beach (as a different character) as well as Jennifer Podemski and Tamara Podemski. McDonald and Norman Jewison, the latter a producer on Dance Me Outside, were executive producers of the TV show.
As long as we are going down this road, John Frizzell, co-writer of Dance Me Outside, also wrote for Twitch City, which McDonald directed and produced and McKellar wrote and acted.
This is a typical Bruce McDonald film in that the soundtrack is a key part of the film. The rock band Leslie Spit Treeo are the house band of the reserve's community hall. We noted music from Dillon's band The Headstones. The soundtrack includes the Indigenous band Redbone and the punk sounds of The Ramones.
Dance Me Outside is a part of the timeline of the telling of Indigenous culture, even from white people. The film is interesting enough. There are a few "before they were famous" performances. The film can be found here.
video credit: YouTube/Video Detective photo credit: Dance Me Outside film
Inconvenient Indian started out on an amazing path. The film debuted at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film won Best Canadian Feature Film and the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. Inconvenient Indian was headed to the Sundance Film Festival.
The rest of the Michelle Latimer saga is rather common knowledge. The question was whether this film would be locked away forever or have a chance, with a significant context, to be shown. Crave had the film on its schedule in late January this year but was yanked off the schedule.
APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) showed the film on April 8. Let's get down to what is in this film.
Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian, provides the narration. Gail Maurice is dressed as the Coyote who drives King around downtown Toronto, especially on Yonge Street, and to the Fox Theatre on Queen Street East. King tells the story throughout about the coyote and ducks, how the coyote keeps coming back for more feathers.
The first part of the film examines the perception of Indigenous people while the second half of the film is more of uplifting positive stories about Indigenous people today. Often, documentaries suffer from the "everything is horrible" syndrome without discussing solutions.
Watching Indigenous people create video games where people who look like them thrive in a virtual world was exhilarating to watch. Learning to fish at camps so Indigenous people can connect to the land. Simple yet beautiful.
The people with interesting stories aren't identified during the film. You can sort of figure them out in the credits but you wanted to know who they were in the moment. Latimer also loses the King narration during this part of the film.
Turtle Island is mentioned in the film but that seems to apply to North America in the sense of an island, so not the island in Lake Erie controlled by Michigan and Ohio.
Latimer really focuses with time and music in slow-motion waves on key disturbing moments such as whacking a seal's head to make sure the seal is dead in a seal hunt to protesters resisting the force from police officers.
Latimer uses the juxtaposition of an Indigenous girl being pulled away from Kent Monkman's painting The Scream, which shows Royal Canadian Mounted Police taking a young Indigenous child from the parents.
The story is told well in a way that even the casual viewer wants to learn more. The content has reverence for what Indigenous people have gone through and the hope they have now for things to be better.
The coyote and ducks story within the story is a great way for people to understand how Indigenous people have been treated so poorly.
If you saw Inconvenient Indian during the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, you might have wanted the film to reach a larger audience. The question is what will happen to this film and the message behind the film.
Outside of the context with Latimer, this is the kind of film you want to show in schools in Canada and the United States. Okay, the seal scenes might not go over well. The film's content could be a great educational tool.
The National Film Board of Canada said the film will be made available for educational and community screenings in the fall along with "supplementary material created to encourage reflection and discussion."
We think this film has serious merit and a great message to get out to people.
"Once a story is told, it can not be called back," King said early in the film. King was speaking about history, which is a bunch of stories. This is also true about the film itself. Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs gave an eloquent comparison of being Indigenous and having Indigenous ancestry.
As we've noted on numerous occasions, we don't have the authority on these issues. Our concern is whether the final product — Inconvenient Indian and Trickster — has value that adds to telling Indigenous stories, even if directed by someone who isn't a part of the community.
Bruce McDonald did a documentary called Claire's Hat based on the troubles of making Picture Claire, which we reviewed. We humbly suggest someone in the community do a documentary on the making of Inconvenient Indian and Trickster to explain the concerns. Then have that same person be the showrunner for a Season 2 of Trickster.
We know the latter will not happen but the documentary would be useful in the ongoing conversation.
Beans from Tracey Deer has won the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award as given out by the Toronto Film Critics Association earlier this evening. The film beat out Danis Goulet's Night Raiders and Scarborough by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson.
The award also carries a $100,000 cash prize, the richest film award in Canada. The runners-up will each receive $5,000. The association gave out awards at the 25th TFCA Awards Gala in Toronto.
Beans won Best Picture at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards and won the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award. The film was second runner up for the People's Choice Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
Night Raiders and Scarborough were at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
The TFCA reported that all 3 films will be screening on National Canadian Film Day on April 20.
Beans will be available on Crave in Canada on March 18 and is currently on Hulu in the United States.
Your humble narrator has seen 2 of the 3 nominees. Scarborough has played in Canada and should make its way to the United States at some point. Then again, Beans had a very long trip before being available south of the 49th parallel.
Scarborough was the first runner-up for the People's Choice Award, won the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award, and received honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF 2021.
Your humble narrator saw the top 3 finalists for the 2020 version of the award. 2 of those films — And the Birds Rained Down from Louise Archambault and White Lie from Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis — played at the 2019 Windsor International Film Festival. Had to track down Anne at 13,000ft, directed by Kazik Radwanski, at a film festival available online.
2020 Anne at 13,000 Ft. Kazik Radwanski 2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers 2018 Anthropocene Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier 2017 Werewolf Ashley McKenzie 2016 The Stairs Hugh Gibson 2015 The Forbidden Room Guy Maddin 2014 Enemy Denis Villeneuve 2013 Watermark Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky 2012 Stories We Tell Sarah Polley 2011 Monsieur Lazhar Philippe Falardeau 2010 Incendies Denis Villeneuve 2009 Polytechnique Denis Villeneuve 2008 My Winnipeg Guy Maddin 2007 Away From Her Sarah Polley 2006 Manufactured Landscapes Jennifer Baichwal 2005 A History of Violence David Cronenberg 2004 The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chomet 2003 Spider David Cronenberg 2002 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Zacharias Kunuk 2001 The Last Wedding Bruce Sweeney 2000 waydowntown Gary Burns 1999 Set Me Free Léa Pool 1998 Last Night Don McKellar 1997 The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan
I have seen the winners from 1997-1998, 2000-2002, 2006-2015, and 2017-2020.
Editor's note:There is definitely language and stories that could be triggering to sufferers of the impact of residential schools in Canada.
60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper came to Canada in October to look into the unmarked graves found at residential schools. Last night, they told the U.S. audience of the atrocities north of the border.
Cooper spoke with Leona Wolf, Chief Wilton Littlechild, and Ed Bitternose. The idea was to speak inside the residential school buildings so they could point to rooms or places where these horrible incidents happened.
Wolf spoke of Father Joyal fondling girls, including her cousin, who was 8. Littlechild came to a residential school in Alberta, where his name was 65 as in "Sixty-five, pick that up stupid." "65, why'd you do that, idiot?" Bitternose said because of his experience, he didn't tell his wife he loved her until they were married about 40 years, "and then I was very careful how I said it."
Cooper covered the basics that have been reported. The exceptions were how the Catholic Church reneged on restitution money as well as how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said there were thousands of graves long before they were discovered.
“That's where my house was. I would sit here and wonder why I couldn't be home.”
Ed Bitternose was taken to a residential school within view of where his parents lived. He says he was abused by other children and a nun, but began healing when he re-discovered his Cree culture. pic.twitter.com/6Mk8qEZNbZ
Archeologist Kisha Supernant weighed in on the multi-generational impact of residential schools, "Our communities still feel the impacts of these institutions in our everyday lives. We're way over-represented in child welfare and adoptions and foster care. We're way over-represented in the prisons. You can draw a direct line with that to these places and the pain of that, that has been passed on from generation to generation."
Wolf spoke to that with her mother and how she treated her and how she treated her children.
The segment was about what happened in Canada. The piece did have a paragraph about what had happened in the United States. "The idea for the schools came in part from the United States. In 1879 the Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened in Pennsylvania, where this photo was taken of Native American children when they first arrived. This is them four months later. The school's motto was 'kill the Indian, save the man.'"
There is a trauma in having the interviews inside the buildings where these horrible deeds took place. The cruelty of having their hair cut, being assigned numbers or Christian names, as Littlechild put it, the motto was, "kill the Indian in the child": these are the small but painful traumas deliberately set into a system justified by the government.
Regular readers know we are destined to bring up Lynn Beyak's name in all of this. The former Conservative senator, one of many scandalous appointments by then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, spent a lot of political capital on the idea that residential schools weren't so bad.
Beyak retired just over a year ago from the Senate. She might have watched the 60 Minutes story and not learned a lot from the experience. While some Canadians may agree with Beyak's views, at least they aren't in the position of a senator.
Though Night Raiders is set in a future dystopian world, the story is really about the reality of residential schools told in a way that may seem more approachable for a film.
Harbouring any minor is a crime in this dystopian world. The age to start in the faceless academy has gone from 5 to 4 years old. This doesn't stop Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) and her 12-year-old daughter Waseese (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) from surviving in the bush for years. When Waseese gets her foot caught in a bear trap, Niska has to decide whether to surrender her daughter for her health.
They rename Waseese as Elizabeth, which relates back to the reality Indigenous people had in Canada. Niska works to get her out of the academy. She runs across Cree people, of which she is one, who are working to help kids find a better life.
The fact that Niska struggles with her Cree language is entirely relevant to the reality of those taken away to residential schools.
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Brooklyn Letexier-Hart are tremendous on screen. The cast features Violet Nelson, who co-starred with Tailfeathers in The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, and Gail Maurice, who was in Trickster, a show Goulet worked on as a consulting producer.
The film also features New Zealand actor Alex Tarrant and American actor Amanda Plummer. Night Raiders is a Canada-New Zealand co-production. Taika Waititi is one of the executive producers on the film.
Night Raiders succeeds mostly when you are aware of the history of Indigenous people in Canada. Danis Goulet, who wrote and directed her first feature film, has a lot to say, and most of it works.
The dystopia part of the film is where the film struggles. The whole kidnapping of children in a dystopia society is handled poorly in the script. Everything is so gray so the impact gets lost. They are bad and that is all. Level 16 and Code 8, very different Canadian films, each gave some logic behind a dystopian world, something where Night Raiders fails.
Niska is given a choice, a second opportunity. This point in the plot feels hollow and 1-dimensional, serving as a very unneeded distraction.
Goulet does pound home some points in case you don't know the history. Still, a good sized section of the audience is not going to know the symbolism before or during the film.
The film struggles as a pure dystopian film, but is better if you know the background of Indigenous children in residential schools.
Night Raiders made the Toronto International Film Festival Top 10 list for 2021. The film has been featured in theatres in Canada and available on demand in the United States.
video credit: YouTube/Movie Coverage photo credit: Night Raiders film
We mention the Independent Spirit Awards mostly for the Best International Film category as a comparison to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
As we went through the 37th Independent Spirit Awards nominations yesterday, we noticed a few Canadian entries.
Michael Greyeyes shows his extensive versatility by getting nominations for film and television.
Greyeyes got a nod for Best Male Lead for Wild Indian. His fellow nominees are Clifton Collins Jr. (Jockey); Frankie Faison (The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain); Udo Kier (Swan Song); and Simon Rex (Red Rocket).
Greyeyes also got a nomination for Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series for Rutherford Falls. His fellow nominees are Lee Jung Jae (Squid Game); Olly Alexander (It's a Sin); Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus); and Ashley Thomas (THEM: Covenant).
The cast of Reservation Dogs will get an award for Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series. The awards will go to Devery Jacobs, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Lane Factor, Paulina Alexis, Sarah Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone.
The show also received a nomination for Best New Scripted Series. The other nominees are It's a Sin; The Underground Railroad; We Are Lady Parts; and Blindspotting.
We know Jacobs and Podemski from previous projects. Alexis and Woon-A-Tai were also in Beans.
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller, Lizzie Shapiro) is nominated for the John Cassavetes Award, as defined by films made for under $500,000. The other nominees are: Cryptozoo; Jockey; Sweet Thing; and This is Not a War Story.
Les Oiseaux Ivres | Drunken Birds did not get a nomination for Best International Film. The nominees are Compartment No. 6 (Finland); Drive My Car (Japan); Parallel Mothers (Spain); Pebbles (India); Petite Maman (France); and Prayers for the Stolen (Mexico). We'll have more on this when the Oscars shortlist is announced on December 21.
The 37th Independent Spirit Awards is March 6, which is 3 weeks before the Academy Awards. The awards have traditionally been the week leading up to the Oscars. Hopefully, they will be back in the tent on the beach in Santa Monica, CA.
photo credits: Blood Quantum film; Shiva Baby film
Tekehentahkhwa is a Mohawk girl trying to get into a private school. When the person in charge can't pronounce her name, she says to call her Beans because everybody does.
Beans is a coming of age story for the young girl, trapped between Grade 6 and Grade 7, girl and womanhood, all in the summer of 1990 during the Oka Crisis.
This is a fictionalized version drawn from Tracey Deer's experiences that summer. Deer co-wrote the story with Meredith Vuchnich and Deer directed the film. You might know Deer from Mohawk Girls, which she created back in 2005 (original documentary) and 2014 (TV show).
Kiawenti:io Tarbell, who worked with Tracey Deer on her acting debut on Anne with an E, stars as Beans. She starts the film being very timid. Beans wants to please her father and dotes over her younger sister Ruby. Her mother Lily wants her to get into that private school. Lily is also quite pregnant.
The coming of age story runs alongside how these characters live through the Oka Crisis of 1990. Her father is mostly off screen because the men are in a different place defending their land. Being at a supermarket and denied food because they were Mohawks. Hiding in a car as your windows are being smashed by people throwing rocks. Watching the police not care when the townspeople throw rocks at the cars with the Indigenous characters exemplifies why this film is important.
The cast includes Brittany LeBorgne (Zoe on Mohawk Girls) and a couple of members of the core group on Reservation Dogs: Paulina Alexis and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai.
Kiawenti:io does a tremendous job with a mix of fear, curiosity, and yes, lust as puberty and hormones make their presence known. She offers that mix of maturity and childlike wonder. The film does a rather good job of balancing these stories.
We can't really talk about Beans without also mentioning Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, the documentary on the Oka Crisis from legendary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin. You can find the documentary via the National Film Board of Canada.
The documentary can give the background if you are curious about the Oka Crisis. English and French Canadians should know this story and likely don't. Americans, well, this will give some insight into Indigenous history in North America.
There is a back and forth in the film about what the white people say about the Indigenous people and vice versa. You hear a lot of "frogs" as some of the Indigenous characters refer to the French Canadians. Like in Rustic Oracle, you don't really hear the Indigenous characters speak French even though they live in Quebec.
This might seem like a small detail but this speaks to an isolation in living in that part of Canada and not knowing or speaking basic French words as needed.
Deer explains this in her Mohawk Girls documentary (2005). They spoke in English despite being in a French-speaking province. Deer said that the French was somehow seen as the enemy.
We rarely say this about a film but at about 90 minutes, the film is really short. The story goes by fast in a good way, surprised at how easy the story is to absorb.
Tracey Deer goes into her past to tell this story, leaving a lot on screen. As difficult as that must have been, the viewers are rewarded for her courage in telling this story. Tekehentahkhwa goes through a lot in just one summer, but what a summer that was.
A Canadian film doesn't need The New York Times level attention though the paper's review and coverage had high praise for the story and film.
Beans won Best Picture at this year's Canadian Screen Awards and won the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award. The film was second runner up for the People's Choice Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
Beans has played in theatres in Canada and is available on demand and in select theatres in the United States.
video credit: YouTube/FilmRise Releasing photo credit: Beans film
Hearing about missing Indigenous women and girls in a news report might not personalize the experience. Hearing an individual story in Rustic Oracle about a missing Indigenous girl might help people understand better.
Heather (Mckenzie Kahnekaroroks Deer) is a teenager about to graduate from high school. She shares a bedroom with her 8-year-old sister Ivy (Lake Kahentawaks Delisle). Heather argues with her mother Susan (Carmen Moore) like any other teenager. Heather hangs out with her friends. Susan doesn't know much because she works long hours. There is no father in the picture.
One day, Heather doesn't come home from school. She doesn't go to school the next day. Susan goes to the police. They don't seem all that interested in Heather's case.
As cruel and lazy as the officer is, this matches the behaviour of the authorities toward missing Indigenous women and girls in real life.
Susan gets tired of waiting for the police to do their job. She sets out to find Heather. Ivy wants to go along because she misses her sister. Susan is reluctant to bring along her other daughter. Ivy knows what the suspect looks like so Susan brings her along.
Ivy has trouble sleeping, the same dream about Heather. Susan is worried about Ivy also disappearing, insisting Ivy not go too far.
Susan's zeal is remarkable even for a film such as this. She gets help along the way from social agencies in the big city of Montréal.
Sonia Boileau brings us into this world in Rustic Oracle as writer/director, showing the frustration of really having no idea what has happened to her teenage daughter. Not lost on the audience is that the officers are clueless, lazy men while the social agencies are filled with women who are very helpful.
Some films would share with the audience the status of the missing person. Boileau knows not to do that here because the audience needs to see what Susan and Ivy see.
Brittany LeBorgne (Mohawk Girls) plays Hawi, a long-time friend of Susan. They reunite as Hawi helps Susan. We get to see a more relaxed person in the presence of Hawi. The scene in the kitchen helps us understand that Susan was once where Heather was and Ivy will be someday.
While there isn't a lot that happens, Boileau keeps the pace at a good rate. You don't lose track or get bored with what is going on. An intriguing dynamic, which ties back into Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. Susan, who lives in Quebec, knows English and her native language but doesn't know much French.
Boileau's initial feature, Le Dep (2015), was shot mostly in French. Simon talked about how she knew her native language and English but didn't have a chance to learn French when she was young.
Today is the first annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. September 30 is set aside to "honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process" of the Indigenous population. This is according to the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action.
Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island give the holiday official status; the other 7 provinces have varying degrees of acceptance.
Here's hoping the holiday gets more official acceptance in subsequent years.
The day has also been Orange Shirt Day in the past so you might run across this term. We saw the orange shirts in Vancouver on Friday the BC Lions of the CFL had as their way of acknowledging the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. TSN analyst Glen Suitor pointed out this was a rare time that they would wear something that represented one of the teams in the game.
Dustin Nielson and Suitor interviewed Phyllis Webstad on the legacy of the orange shirts. Webstad told her story of her first day at a residential school as a 6-year-old. She wore a shiny new orange shirt, bought by her grandmother. They took the shirt from her.
The ESPN2 audience got to see that interview in the United States. Americans know even less about residential schools than Canadians know about their residential schools.
The Ottawa RedBlacks had a Game of Reconciliation with the Edmonton Elks in the nation's capital on Tuesday. The Edmonton team recently changed its nickname to an animal from a racial slur against the Inuit.
From the CBC Facebook page: "Contributing CBC Art Director Emily Kewageshig, an Anishinaabe artist raised in Saugeen First Nation #29, redesigned the CBC logo marking the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Her work captures the interconnection of life forms using culturally significant materials from the land."
CBC television has extensive prime time programming for the holiday. All times are local; add 30 minutes to the time in most of Newfoundland.
7 pm Tonight's lineup starts with Through Our Eyes: Indigenous Shorts, a 4-part compilation of CBC Short Docs by Indigenous documentary filmmakers.
The new minority government needs to do more about the truth part of the truth and reconciliation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is correct that his government has fixed more than 100 boil orders to bring fresh water to reserves. Everyone agrees that more needs to be done on the remaining boil orders.
You are likely working on September 30. You might be interested and not even living in Canada. There are a strong list of Canadian films, fiction and documentaries, that are an asset in learning more about what Indigenous people have been through over multiple generations.
TIFF recognized Alanis Obomsawin and a number of her films at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
The TV audiences have seen Indigenous stories lately with Rutherford Falls (Peacock), Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu), Mohawk Girls (Peacock via APTN and CBC), and Trickster (CW via the CBC).
We wrote a story earlier this year with a few titles we've seen that can be educational for those who want to learn more.
