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.
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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.
Playlist
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Poplar RiverKevin Settee 2021 10 minThis film explores Poplar River First Nation’s intergenerational responsibility of protecting the lands and waters in their territory for generations to come.
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Indigenous Plant DivaKamala 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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Spirit DoctorsMarie 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 BonesJanine Windolph 2019 11 min
A mother takes her young city-raised sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother)—a powerful form of resistance that rebuilds their connection to their homeland, and to one another.
