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Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette

Born to a Métis father and a Mennonite mother, Katherena Vermette grew up in Winnipeg’s predominantly Indigenous North End. “I spent years trying to run away… before I realized there was no other place I wanted to be—or could be, really,” she said in a 2013 interview. North End Love Songs, her first poetry collection, won a 2013 Governor General’s Award, and The Break, her first novel, won a Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. Her acclaimed short film this river, co-directed with Erika MacPherson, profiles Drag the Red, a grassroots, volunteer-driven initiative to search for missing Indigenous people.

  • cette rivière
    cette rivière
    Erika MacPherson  &  Katherena Vermette 2016 19 min
    Ce court métrage documentaire expose sous un angle très personnel l’insoutenable déchirement que représente la recherche d’un être cher porté disparu. Kyle Kematch et Katherena Vermette ont tous deux connu cet immense chagrin. L’une des sœurs de Kyle est disparue il y a plus de 5 ans. Il travaille aujourd’hui pour l’organisme bénévole Drag the Red, qui mène des recherches dans la rivière Rouge afin de trouver des indices qui auraient un lien avec des membres disparus de la communauté autochtone. Katherena est une poète et une auteure dont toutes les œuvres s’inspirent d’un drame familial survenu il y plus de 20 ans. Bien que les circonstances de la perte que chacun d’eux a subie diffèrent, Kyle et Katherena incarnent la beauté, la dignité, la résilience et le militantisme né du besoin d’agir.
  • this river
    this river
    Erika MacPherson  &  Katherena Vermette 2016 19 min
    This short documentary offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Volunteer activist Kyle Kematch and award-winning writer Katherena Vermette have both survived this heartbreak and share their histories with each other and the audience. While their stories are different, they both exemplify the beauty, grace, resilience, and activism born out of the need to do something.

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