Journey to our Homeland

Showing In

Above and All Around
Zinema 1 Fri, Mar 31, 2023 5:00 PM
A faraway island, a new home, a bowling club - there are so many different places and ways to find ourselves.
Film Info
Release Year:2022
Production Country:Canada
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Adrien Harpelle

Description

In September 2019, Nibinamik First Nation Elders Tommy Yellowhead and Stephen Neshinapaise, both born at PinnaeMootang, were accompanied by a small group of youth and a Shebafilms crew as they travelled an historic canoe route to their birthplace. They paddled southward from Nibinamik First Nation to their old village site, with the journey and experiences captured for the film ‘Journey to Our Homelands.’ Elders Tommy Yellowhead and Stephen Neshinapaise hope to inspire all Matawa First Nations to ‘think beyond the Indian Act’ and start reconnecting with each other through their lakes, rivers and trails, as they have done for millennia.