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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto;VALUE=DATE:20240926
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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/culture-days-welland-museum/
SUMMARY:Honour To Senator Murray Sinclair & Six Miles Deep
DESCRIPTION:As part of its Culture Days programming\, the Welland Musuem is
  offering free public screening of the following NFB films:\n\nHonour To S
 enator Murray Sinclair  (Alanis Obomsawin | 2021 | 29 min) \n\nAs the Ch
 air of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission\, Senator Murray Sinclair w
 as a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’
 s residential school system. With determination\, wisdom and kindness\, Se
 nator Sinclair remains steadfast in his belief that the path to actual rec
 onciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people requires understa
 nding and accepting often difficult truths about Canada’s past and prese
 nt. Alanis Obomsawin shares the powerful speech the Senator gave when he a
 ccepted the WFM-Canada World Peace Award\, interspersing the heartbreaking
  testimonies of former students imprisoned at residential schools.\n\nSix 
 Miles Deep ( Sara Roque | 2009 | 43 mins) \n\nThis short documentary offe
 rs a portrait of a group of women who led their community\, the largest re
 serve in Canada\, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve\, in an historic 
 blockade to protect their land.\n\nOn February 28\, 2006\, members of the 
 Iroquois Confederacy blockaded a highway near Caledonia\, Ontario to preve
 nt a housing development on land that falls within their traditional terri
 tories. The ensuing confrontation made national headlines for months. Less
  well-known is the crucial role of the clan mothers of the community who s
 et the rules for conduct. When the community's chiefs ask people to abando
 n the barricades\, it is the clan mothers who overrule them\, leading a cu
 ltural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal community.\n\n---\n\
 nFor more info\, please visit the organizer's website here.
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LOCATION:Welland Museum\, 140 King St\, Welland\, ON\, L3B 3J3\, Canada
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