I’m an Indigenous Filmmaker Up for an Oscar. Here’s What I Hope Happens Next.

 

 

"For most of North American history, Indigenous peoples lived under a devastating form of authoritarianism, confined to impoverished reservations and denigrated as inferior outsiders in the only place we’ve ever known as home. Through the residential schools, we were even deprived of the right to raise our own children.

But those schools failed. And Indigenous peoples are still here. “Sugarcane” is a testament to the stories yet to be told — stories of a people who survived a genocide, who have urgent things to say and unique stories to tell. We maintain a way of seeing the world that is deeply familial, communal, spiritual, rooted in place and tradition, and in that sense, human and universal. And we’ve only begun to tell our stories."

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I’m an Indigenous Filmmaker Up for an Oscar. Here’s What I Hope Happens Next. – DNyuz