We are on Indigenous Land: Re/claiming Native Spaces

Virtual screening and discussion with Corrina Gould, Tim Shay & Lilah Akins

October 22nd 2020, 7pm-9pm

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Please click on the following links when you are ready to watch the films:

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Beyond Recognition tells the inspiring story of women creating opportunities and organizing strategies to preserve Native cultures and homelands in a society bent on erasing them. Corrina Gould is the spokesperson for the confederated villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, and co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, and Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC).

Click here to view. [Run time: 24 minutes]

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i am ákʷitən, the medicine tree vessel that carries our relatives is an imaginative exploration of ancestral ties to Wabanaki lands and waters, collectively created by Lilah Akins, Devon Kelley-Yurdin, Emilia Dahlin, Cory Tamler, and Jennie Hahn.

Click here to view. [Run time: 3 minutes, 4 seconds]

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The Nibezun Project provides an introduction to Nibezun, a sacred gathering place of the Wabanaki on the Penobscot River.

Click here and scroll down to view. [Run time: 3 minutes, 58 seconds]

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When you are finished watching the films, please return to the Zoom meeting for the Q&A.