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Sara Roque
Sara Roque is a filmmaker and arts administrator of Métis/Ojibwe and European descent. Her credits include Six Miles Deep (2009), which highlights the vital role played by clan mothers in the 2006 Caledonia blockade, whereby the Haudenosaunee Confederacy mobilized to resist real-estate development on land formally granted to them under the 1784 Haldimand Proclamation. The film received Honourable Mention for the Colin Low Award at the 2010 DOXA Festival. Roque has done camerawork for numerous community-based arts projects and is among the founding members of O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk, an Indigenous women’s arts collective. She has worked as an Aboriginal Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council.
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Six milles à l'horizonSara Roque 2009 43 minCe court métrage documentaire montre le rôle essentiel qu’ont joué les mères iroquoises durant les événements politiques du 28 février 2006 à Caledonia, en Ontario. En ce jour historique, des membres de la Confédération iroquoise ont érigé des barricades sur une route pour empêcher des travaux de construction sur des terres qui, affirment-ils, leur appartiennent légitimement. Une réflexion sur la résistance, la société et l’histoire des femmes autochtones. -
Six Miles DeepSara Roque 2009 43 minThis short documentary offers a portrait of a group of women who led their community, the largest reserve in Canada, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, in an historic blockade to protect their land. On February 28, 2006, members of the Iroquois Confederacy blockaded a highway near Caledonia, Ontario to prevent a housing development on land that falls within their traditional territories. The ensuing confrontation made national headlines for months. Less well-known is the crucial role of the clan mothers of the community who set the rules for conduct. When the community's chiefs ask people to abandon the barricades, it is the clan mothers who overrule them, leading a cultural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal community.
