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Saturday, June 9th @ 8:00pm
CINEMA INDIGENE presents A GOOD DAY TO DIE
All over the world Indigenous people are picking up cameras and telling their stories. Join curator Eve LaFountain for this installment of the screening series that highlights the best and most exciting works of contemporary Native made cinema and see how Native people are representing themselves, their cultures and histories on screen. This month we present A GOOD DAY TO DIE, a documentary about Ojibwa activist Dennis Banks. Dennis Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) in 1968 to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The film presents an intimate look at Dennis Banks' life beginning with his early experience in boarding schools, through his military service in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison and subsequent founding of a movement that, through confrontational actions in Washington DC, Custer South Dakota and Wounded Knee, changed the lives of American Indians forever. Produced and directed by David Mueller and Lynn Salt (Choctaw). Discussion of the film to follow.
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