HUMA 3255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mohawk People, Food Bank, Imagic
16 Feb 2017
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Take on causes ceasation of being studied and objects, rather become subject who create self- controlled images of indigenous cultures. Cinema of sovereignty, the embodiment of an insider"s perspective. March 10 1990, kanehsatake people protest expansion of golf course onto their lands, pines, and graveyard, ignored and given 4 months to stop or police come in. Kahentiiosta (woman), ellen gabriel (woman), robert "mad jap" skidders. July 11, 1990 swat team came, women went to the front to support. Protesters blocked all highways to the resort, bullets start. Police ran when one of their men got shot, left construction vehicles, mohawk people took over and used to them build cars to make a blockade on the highway. Jump cuts of children on bus, sides of the blockade. Jump to satoge ground where people are angry because the highway is still blocked, mercy bridge blocked, burn a dummy mohawk yelling "savages"
