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Ancestral Knowledges (Ages 12-14)

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This playlist highlights Indigenous ecological knowledge, kinship connections and ways of life rooted in relationships with each other and the land. These films provide intergenerational learning and depict different practices of relating to the land, water, and plants. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include The Sacred Relationship Poplar River Indigenous Plant Diva Laxwesa Wa - Strength of the River Spirit Doctors Stories are in our Bones

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Ancestral Knowledges (Ages 12-14)

This playlist highlights Indigenous ecological knowledge, kinship connections and ways of life rooted in relationships with each other and the land. These films provide intergenerational learning and depict different practices of relating to the land, water, and plants.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
The Sacred Relationship
Poplar River
Indigenous Plant Diva
Laxwesa Wa - Strength of the River
Spirit Doctors
Stories are in our Bones

Playlist

  • Poplar River
    Poplar River
    Kevin Settee 2021 10 min
    This film explores the special connection that Poplar River First Nation has to the lands and waters surrounding their community. Poplar River community members Sophia Rabliauskas and Clint Bittern share their perspectives on the importance and intergenerational responsibility of protecting the lands and waters in their territory for generations to come.
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  • Indigenous Plant Diva
    Indigenous Plant Diva
    Kamala Todd 2008 9 min
    Kamala Todd's short film is a lyrical portrait of Cease Wyss, of the Squamish Nation. Wyss is a woman who understands the remarkable healing powers of the plants growing all over downtown Vancouver. Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, or the gentleness of comfrey, plants carry ageless wisdom with them, communicated through colour, texture, and form. Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language and is now passing this ancient and intimate connection down to her own daughter, Senaqwila.
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  • Laxwesa Wa - Strength of the River
    Laxwesa Wa - Strength of the River
    Barb Cranmer 1995 54 min
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  • Spirit Doctors
    Spirit Doctors
    Marie Burke 2005 40 min
    This short documentary journeys into the spiritual world of traditional Indigenous medicine, a world inhabited by Dr. Mary Louie (a spiritual leader of the Syilx or Okanagan Nation), and her husband Ed Louie. With a lifetime of experience in the ways of spirituality, they are committed to practices that keep them accountable to the spirit world, their people, and Mother Earth. When one of the crew members get sick while shooting, his subsequent care is recorded for the purposes of this film.
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  • Stories Are in Our Bones
    Stories Are in Our Bones
    Janine Windolph 2019 11 min
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