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Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell

Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell

Ancien grand chef du conseil d’Akwesasne, le Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell a été membre du célèbre Indian Film Crew, un programme de formation créé en 1967 par l’ONF pour les cinéastes autochtones. Vous êtes en terre indienne (1969) est l’un des films de l’IFC les plus marquants, qui n’a d’ailleurs été officiellement reconnu comme œuvre de Mitchell qu’en 2017. Ce témoignage relate le blocage du pont qui relie le Canada et les États-Unis dans la réserve kanien’kéhaka d’Akwesasne. Largement diffusé, le film a contribué à une mobilisation continentale et à la sensibilisation du public aux injustices vécues par les peuples autochtones. Mitchell a aussi réalisé Who Were the Ones? et coréalisé Ces gens sont mon peuple.

  • Who Were the Ones?
    Who Were the Ones?
    Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell 1972 7 min
    This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?"

    The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.
  • You Are on Indian Land
    You Are on Indian Land
    Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell 1969 36 min
    Released in 1969, this short documentary was one of the most influential and widely distributed productions made by the Indian Film Crew (IFC), the first all-Indigenous unit at the NFB. It documents a 1969 protest by the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) of Akwesasne, a territory that straddles the Canada–U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases—a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794—Kanien’kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State. Director Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell later became Grand Chief of Akwesasne. The film was formally credited to him in 2017. You Are on Indian Land screened extensively across the continent, helping to mobilize a new wave of Indigenous activism. It notably was shown at the 1970 occupation of Alcatraz.
  • These Are My People...
    These Are My People...
    Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell ,  Willie Dunn , … 1969 13 min
    Released in 1969, These Are My People… was the first NFB film made entirely by an Indigenous crew. It was co-directed by Roy Daniels, Willie Dunn, Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell and Barbara Wilson—members of the Indian Film Crew (IFC), an all-Indigenous unit established in 1968 as part of Challenge for Change, a broader organizational initiative to use media to effect social change. One of the first Canadian documentaries to foreground an Indigenous perspective on the history of Indigenous–settler relations, it features Standing Arrow and Tom Porter, from the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) community of Akwesasne, who discuss longhouse religion, culture, government and the impacts of settler arrival on their way of life.

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