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ôtênaw

“ôtênaw” is a film documenting the oral storytelling of Dwayne Donald, an educator from Treaty 6, Edmonton Canada. Drawing from nêhiyawak philosophies, he speaks about the multilayered histories of Indigenous peoples’ presence both within and around amiskwacîwâskahikan, or what has come to be known as the city of Edmonton.

Film Maker
McNally, Conor
Year
2017
Country
Canada
Length
41
Language
English & Cree
Category
(De)colonization, Activism + Protest, cameraless, Canada, Capitalism + Economics, Culture, Earth, Ecology, Education, environment, Ethnography, Geography, history, Identity, Indigenous, Landscape, Language, media studies, Oral Histories, Politics + Policy, Resistance, Society, Time + Space, Urban
Genre
documentary, experimental, feature