Maximilian Forte's Videos (Indigenous Caribbean Network) - Indigenous Caribbean Network

ARIMA BORN: Land, Labour, Power, and Colonial Mythology in Trinidad

2020-02-15T01:53:09.481Z

Documentary on the history of the "Indian Mission" in Arima, Trinidad.

ARIMA BORN: Land, Labour, Power, and Colonial Mythology in Trinidad

2020-02-15T01:50:42.740Z

Documentary on the history of the "Indian Mission" in Arima, Trinidad.

Carib Community of Arima, Trinidad and Tobago

2011-07-25T10:08:56.512Z

An introduction to the Santa Rosa Carib Community of Trinidad and Tobago, based on both ethnographic and historical research. The contents of the video are organized according to the following sections:

1. The Mission
2. The So-called "Extinction"
3. The Traditions
3-A. The Santa Rosa Festival
3-B. Work duties for the Santa Rosa Festival
3-C. The Smoke Ceremony
4. The Resurgence
4-A. Chief Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
4-B. Shaman Cristo Adonis
4-C. Carib Queen Justa Werges
4-D. International Indigenous Connections
5. The Question of Recognition

This is meant to serve as a condensed overview of four full-length video documentaries to come.

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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

2009-01-22T19:56:54.116Z

Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance
Alanis Obomsawin, 1993, 119 min 15 s
On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of an age-old Aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades.

YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND

2009-01-22T19:53:08.608Z

You Are on Indian Land
Mort Ransen, 1969, 36 min 48 s
The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. By blocking traffic on the bridge, which is on the Reserve, the Indians drew public attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Canadian authorities from duty-free passage of personal purchases across the border, a right they claim was established by the Jay Treaty of 1794.