{"id":10225,"date":"2022-06-17T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&p=10225"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:30:41","slug":"national-indigenous-history-month-at-the-nfb-onf","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/national-indigenous-history-month-at-the-nfb-onf\/","title":{"rendered":"National Indigenous History Month at the NFB\/ONF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Film Board has been creating and distributing excellent Indigenous films for as long as I can remember. Growing up as a non-indigenous Canadian, Indigenous NFB\/ONF filmmakers like <\/span>Alanis Obomsawin<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Willie Dunn<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Gil Cardinal<\/span><\/a> shaped some of my earliest understandings of Indigenous people, history, and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, as a young adult, I enjoyed and learned from the films of <\/span>Loretta Todd<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Zacharias Kunuk<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> and <\/span>Barb Cranmer<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently, I have appreciated and been moved by Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers\u2019 <\/span>K\u00edmmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy<\/span><\/a>, an intimate portrait of the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic on the Kainai First Nation and the community\u2019s response.<\/span> I also recommend Christine Welsh\u2019s <\/span>Finding Dawn<\/span><\/a>, a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy \u2013 the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. <\/span>Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again<\/span><\/a>, by Courtney Montour, is a powerful film about Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada\u2019s Indian Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

June is National Indigenous History Month; a great time to check out the NFB\/ONF\u2019s <\/span>Indigenous Voices and Reconciliation<\/span><\/a> channel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I will be watching some new movies too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: NFB\/ONF <\/span>blog<\/a>: Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers with crew on the Kainai Nation. Photo by Arnell Tailfeathers<\/em>
\nCatherine Fisher, blogger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10227,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[61],"class_list":["post-10225","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-culture-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}