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    270 years of resistance = 270 ans de résistance : 4 films / Alanis Obomsawin.

    • Title:270 years of resistance = 270 ans de résistance : 4 films / Alanis Obomsawin.
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    • Variant Title:Alanis Obomsawin, the collection : 270 years of resistance
      Collection, 270 years of resistance
      Kanehsatake, 270 years of resistance
    • Related Title:Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance.
      Rocks at Whiskey Trench.
      My name is Kahentiiosta.
      Spudwrench : Kahnawake man.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Obomsawin, Alanis.
      Labrecque, Jean-Claude, 1938-2019.
      Vendette, Claude.
      Grandmont, Francis.
      Koenig, Wolf.
      Reed, Donna.
      Xwi7xwa Collection
      National Film Board of Canada.
    • Published/Created:[Montréal] : National Film Board of Canada, ©2008.
    • Holdings

       
    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Mohawk--Aboriginal title.
      Mohawk--Land claims.
      Mohawk--Government relations.
      Mohawk--Resistance.
      Indigenous Peoples--Women--Québec (Province)
      Indigenous Peoples--Government relations.
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Structural steel workers--Québec (Province)
      Documentary films.
      Québec (Province)--History--Native Crisis, 1990.
    • Description:3 videodiscs (119, 105, 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
    • Terms governing use:Restrictions: Site license. UBC faculty, staff & students only.
    • Credits:Cinematography, Jean-Claude Labrecque ... [et al.] ; original music, Claude Vendette, Francis Grandmont.
    • Summary:Four films dealing with the Oka Crisis, a land dispute in the summer of 1990 between the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, (about 25 miles west of Montréal) and the nearby town of Oka. The dispute resulted in an armed standoff between the Mohawk people, the Québec police, and the Canadian army.
      pt.1 : Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance : On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed standoff between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades, providing insight into the Mohawks' unyeilding determination to protect their land.
      pt.1 : Rocks at Whiskey Trench : On August 28, 1990, a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of Kahnawake and crossed Montreal's Mercier Bridge - stright into an angry mob that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were Mohawk women, children and elders leaving Kahnawake, in fear of a possible advance by the Canadian army. A painstakingly reserached social document, the film looks back at the events surrounding the August 29 attack, and delves into the history of Kahnawakw and the consequences of the approproiation of land that have shrunk its territory by more than two-thirds over the last 300 years.
      pt.2 : My name is Kahentiiosta : Arrested after the 78-day armed standoff during the 1990 Oka crisis, Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman proud of her centuries-old heritage, is detained four days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec government will not accept her aboriginal name. From the perspective of Kahentiiosta, we witness the arrest and detention of those who withdrew from the Treatment Centre after the Canadian Army advanced, and we learn why Kahentiiosta was prepared to die to protect the land and trees sacred to the Mohawk people Kanehsatake.
      pt.2: Spudwrench : Kahnawake man : Meet Randy Horne, high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Monreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka Crisis. This film is both a portrait of Horne and the generation of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him and a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred history.
    • Local note:First Nations author.
    • Notes:Title from slipcase.
      Issued in 2 containers with accompanying text in slipcase.
      At head of title: The collection = La collection.
      "Produced and directed by Alanis Obomsawin"--Back of containers.
      Originally released as motion pictures between 1993 and 2000.
      Accompanied by text: 270 years of resistance : essays, articles and documentation = 270 ans de résistance : essays, textes et documentation. 55, 49 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
      DVD (NTSC, multizone); mono or Dolby 5.1
      Sound tracks in French and English. Second work in English with French subtitles.
    • Contents:pt 1. Kanehsatake, 270 years of resistance = Kanehsatake, 270 ans de résistance (119 min.)
      pt 1. Rocks at Whiskey Trench = Pluie de pierres à Whiskey Trench (105 min.)
      pt 2. My name is Kahentiiosta = Je m'appelle Kahentiiosta (30 min.)
      Spudwrench, Kahnawake man = Spudwrench, l'homme de Kahnawake (57 min. 40 sec.)
      pt.3 Guide: Alanis Obomsawin : the collection. Forward
      Introduction / Sally Berger
      Alanis Obomsawin, singer, storyteller, filmaker, poet / Robert Verrall
      Portrait of the artis as Ogima: Film and the cause of the First Nations / Andre Dudemaine
      A women of our times / Merata Mita
      The Oka Crisis: the power of a woman with a movie camera / Audra Simpson and Faye Ginsburg
      Cutting through the razor wire at Mohawk barricades / Ronald Wright
      Kanehsatake documentary shows shameful way Canadian government treats Aboriginal People / Joh Griffin
      About Alanis Obomsawin
      Bibgraphy
      Filmography
      Personal achivement awards
      Awards presented in honour of Alanis Obomsawin
      Film credits.
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