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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising tells the little known story of how in 1974, Anishinaabe youth staged one of the first land-back occupations in Canadian history in Kenora, Ontario.
Title: Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
Director: Shane Belcourt
#Indigenoushistory #Anishinaabe #documentaryshorts
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising begins in Kenora in the 1970s: a picturesque tourist town of 15,000 people near the Manitoba border. Between 1970 to 1973, this so-called sleepy town saw nearly 200 First Nations Peoples die unexplained, “sudden deaths” without proper police investigations.
Fed-up and frustrated, Indigenous Peoples used the only thing they had to get attention about their plight – their bodies. In 1974, the young, enigmatic Louis Cameron – a man who spoke like a combination of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. – formed the Ojibway Warriors Society that led the occupation. The Warriors took up arms and occupied the 14-acre park along with leaders from the American Indian movement. Their demands were for housing, medical care, jobs and their lives. They defied the local police, a government that planted informants in their midst, the racist press. They fought for their land, and their right to exist. The occupation sparked a Caravan to Parliament Hill that culminated in a bloody protest and ultimately led to the creation of the Assembly of First Nations, which continues to fight for First Nations rights.
This film features Tyler Cameron, Louis Cameron's son, who begins to intimately understand his dad after Tyler found Louis' forgotten manuscript that details the racism, police abuse and what it was like being 'Indian' in Kenora, a place once described as the ‘Alabama of the north.’ Tyler grapples with the fact that not much has changed in Kenora, but the spirit of the occupation of Anicinabe Park remains to this day - one of Indigenous power and resilience.
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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising tells the little known story of how in 1974, Anishinaabe youth staged one of the first land-back occupations in Canadian history in Kenora, Ontario.
Title: Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
Director: Shane Belcourt
#Indigenoushistory #Anishinaabe #documentaryshorts
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising begins in Kenora in the 1970s: a picturesque tourist town of 15,000 people near the Manitoba border. Between 1970 to 1973, this so-called sleepy town saw nearly 200 First Nations Peoples die unexplained, “sudden deaths” without proper police investigations.
Fed-up and frustrated, Indigenous Peoples used the only thing they had to get attention about their plight – their bodies. In 1974, the young, enigmatic Louis Cameron – a man who spoke like a combination of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. – formed the Ojibway Warriors Society that led the occupation. The Warriors took up arms and occupied the 14-acre park along with leaders from the American Indian movement. Their demands were for housing, medical care, jobs and their lives. They defied the local police, a government that planted informants in their midst, the racist press. They fought for their land, and their right to exist. The occupation sparked a Caravan to Parliament Hill that culminated in a bloody protest and ultimately led to the creation of the Assembly of First Nations, which continues to fight for First Nations rights.
This film features Tyler Cameron, Louis Cameron's son, who begins to intimately understand his dad after Tyler found Louis' forgotten manuscript that details the racism, police abuse and what it was like being 'Indian' in Kenora, a place once described as the ‘Alabama of the north.’ Tyler grapples with the fact that not much has changed in Kenora, but the spirit of the occupation of Anicinabe Park remains to this day - one of Indigenous power and resilience.
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