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My Name Is Kahentiiosta
1995. Canada. Alanis Obomsawin. 30 min.
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Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man
1997. Canada. Alanis Obomsawin. 58 min.
Introduced by Obomsawin
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
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My Name Is Kahentiiosta
1995. Canada. Written and directed by Alanis Obomsawin. Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman proud of her centuries-old heritage, is arrested after the 1990 Kanehsatake/Oka crisis and detained because the prosecutor will not accept her native name. The film captures Kahentiiosta's willingness to die for what she considers sacred. 30 min.
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Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man
1997. Canada. Written and directed by Alanis Obomsawin. During the 1990 Kanehsatake/Oka crisis, Randy Horne, a steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake near Montreal, was known as Spudwrench, a defender of his people's culture and traditions. This documentary tells the little-known story of Horne and other Mohawks who travel North America doing dangerous, unprotected high-elevation steel work on bridges and some of the world's tallest buildings. 58 min.
In the Film exhibition Alanis Obomsawin
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