“Telling the story about my family and my community was, at the same time, the most challenging and most rewarding time of my life,” says Reaghan Tarbell, a Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) filmmaker from Kahnawake, Quebec. She won widespread acclaim for Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back, her film about the Mohawk high steel workers who helped create the New York skyline, and the women who sustained their thriving community in Brooklyn. She has collaborated with Montreal-based Mushkeg Media, notably on Finding Our Talk, a series on Indigenous languages, and has worked with the National Museum of the American Indian.
Dans ce long métrage documentaire, la cinéaste Reaghan Tarbell part à la découverte de ses racines en retraçant l'histoire de la communauté mohawk de Brooklyn (New York). Du début du XXe siècle aux années 1960, les Mohawks de Kahnawake, au Québec, ont participé sans interruption à la construction des gratte-ciels de la métropole américaine. Plusieurs s’y sont établis, créant une sous-culture autochtone citadine au cœur de Brooklyn. La cinéaste leur rend hommage.