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Premiere

Tentsítewahkwe

USA 2024

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Embodying the Mohawk value of Tentsítewahkwe, Jessica Shenandoah goes on a knowledge-gathering journey across all four seasons to reinvigorate the healing, land-based practices of her ancestral grandmothers, knowledge that boarding schools, forced religion, and land theft may have suppressed but could not destroy.

Director Katsitsionni Fox (mohawk)
Rating G
Running time 17 min
Language English, Kanienkéha
Subtitles English
Year 2024
Country USA
Director

Katsitsionni Fox

Katsitsionni Fox is a Mohawk filmmaker sharing empowering stories of resilient Indigenous women. Her debut film was Ohero:kon – Under the Husk, a documentary following two Mohawk girls participating in traditional passage rites to become Mohawk Women. Her most recent film, Without a Whisper – Konnon:kwe, received awards at Woods Hole Film Festival, Female Voices Rock Film Festival, ...

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