NFB Pause with Courtney Montour

NFB Pause with Courtney Montour

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"Mary was a Mohawk woman from Kahnawake, the same community that I'm from. She is one of the key women to challenge discrimination against Indigenous women in Canada's Indian Act." Mohawk filmmaker Courtney Montour describes her new documentary on Mary Two-Axe Earley, whose fight for the rights of First Nations women made her a pivotal figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.

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NFB Pause with Courtney Montour, Simon Rouillard, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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    Simon Rouillard

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