Kanàtenhs -- When the Pine Needles Fall: Film Screening and Discussion

On Thursday, October 3rd, the Decolonizing Lens presents a film screening of Kanàtenhs — When the Pine Needles Fall – a film by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel.

The event will include a film screening and discussion of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel’s award-winning documentary. Kanien’kehaka artist and activist Ellen Gabriel became the first Indigenous artist to win the Grand Prix of the Conseils des arts de Montréal for this work in April 2024. The film recounts the 1990 “Mohawk Crisis’ (the siege of Kanehsatà:ke) from the perspective of Indigenous women land defenders.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and CHRR Affiliates Dr. Niigaan Sinclair and Dr. Sean Carleton.

The event is co-sponsored by Decolonizing Lens, WAG-Qaumajuq, the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund (Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba), the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and the Centre for Human Rights Research.

Free and open to all. No registration is required.