Festival Activities at Kahnawake

Several films made by Mohawks address subjects close to the community’s heart (conditions of belonging to the Nation, families of Mohawk workers in New York City, Mohawk language survival). This film-screening event will be an important community event in Kahnawake, at Kateri Hall, on June 17, 18 and 19.

 

THUSDAY, JUNE 17, at 7 p.m.

Heaven’s Fiddle – Willis Petti, Canada 2007, 2min32
Round Round Round – Christopher Markowsky, Canada 2006, 4min16
Good Looking – Joseph Lazare, Canada 2007, 17min30 – An actress runs to an audition for a role in a horror film. The zombies die laughing.
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back – Reaghan Tarbell, Canada 2008, 56min40 – A look back at the community of Mohawk high-steel workers and their families in Brooklyn. Between nostalgia and self-affirmation, between skyscrapers and native lands, the deep tracks of collective memory.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, at 7 p.m

Club Native – It takes more than a bit of the blood quantum to belong to the select club of Status Indians. Mohawk women's strength vs. the narrow calculations of racial genetics.

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, at 7 p.m.

Amendement, L’ – Kevin Papatie, Canada 2007, 4min20
Kanien’keha:ka, Living The Langage – Paul M. Rickard, Tracey Deer, Canada 2008, 60MIN – Part 1: So their Mohawk language can survive, parents take their children out of the public school system and create the Akwesasne Freedom School. Part 2: Freedom School's Mohawk curriculum makes language, customs and spirituality part of a greater whole, passed along to the new generation.