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CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE--- Shark Dance

2017-06-29T04:36:15.990Z

During the annual Summer Solstice ceremony of the Taino tribal CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE, the behike (spiritual guide) leads a special dance as part of the ceremony. This dance is called the "Shark Dance". In this dance the behike wields a hand-held ceremonial hatchet called a "manaya". The behike also wields an effigy of a shark crafted from vegetable material. The shark is the totem animal of the Taino spirit of challenge called Guakar. During the dance the behike represents Guakar himself and challenges a man previously selected from the celebrants of the ceremony to represent YokaHu, the Taino spirit of Life and Energy. The two dancers square off in mock conflict until at last the behike sets down the shark effigy and then the man representing YokaHu approaches the effigy and shoots it with a bow and arrow. This final act of the dance represents the victory of humanity over the challenges of life.

The Sacred Science Presents - Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague

2013-10-24T09:58:14.411Z

A description of traditional Taino concepts; including the use of three sacred herbs, the meaning of the Taino four directions

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.

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2008-10-21T12:53:58.541Z

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