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This short documentary by Colin Low is an invitation to a gathering of the Káínaa of Alberta - as the Sun Dance is captured on film for the first time. The film shows how the theme of the circle reflects the bands' connection to wildlife and also addresses the predicament of the young generation, those who have relinquished their ties with their own culture but have not yet found a firm place in a changing world.

DAY/TIME: Friday, May 7, 2021; 2 to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Online via Zoom

Pete Standing Alone of the Kainai Nation was more at home in the White man's culture than his own as a young man. However, confronted with the realization that his children knew very little about their origins, he became determined to pass down to them the customs and traditions of his ancestors.

A dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines

Join the Blackfoot Digital Library, the Lethbridge Public Library, and the University of Lethbridge Library in this special screening of Round Up for Indigenous Awareness Week.

The University of Lethbridge Anti-Racism Film Series invites U of L Faculty, Staff and Students to a film screening of: “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 1984-1992”

Renewal (March 19 - April 6)

And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) (Québec, Louise Archambault, 2019)

The lives of three elderly hermits living in the woods of Québec are shaken up by the arrival of two women. One is an octogenarian who has been unjustly institutionalised her whole life; the other is a photographer tracing the impact of recent devastating fires. (In French with English subtitles) Watch Film