"Journey to Our Homeland"

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Film still from "Journey to Our Homeland" directed by Adrien Harpelle (Canada, 2022).

Journey to Our Homeland, Adrien Harpelle (Canada, 2022)

In September 2019, Nibinamik First Nation Elders Tommy Yellowhead and Stephen Neshinapaise, both born at Pinaymotang, were accompanied by a small group of youth and a Shebafilms crew as they traveled 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. Yellowhead and 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.

The film was made in an effort to encourage other Matawa members to connect socially with each other through their waterways and trails in order to demonstrate the current and traditional land usage for all Matawa communities and First Nation members.

Film will be screened in original version with subtitles in Spanish.

A film in the 2024 edition of IndieFest, Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival.

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