[nativestudies-l] 11/15 Screening: Student documentary film and discussion

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I'd like to invite you to a screening of "Margie and Robert 
>> Boldeagle" a documentary I recently finished about a Native American 
>> couple living in Staten Island New York.  The film follows the lives 
>> of documentary explores issues of cultural identity, and the 
>> challenges of maintaining native traditions in an urban environment.
>>
>> The film is about 38 minutes long.  I'll be screening it in Bowers 
>> this Thursday night at 6:30.  I'd love it if you could come, and if 
>> you'd like, stay for a short discussion afterwards.  Light 
>> refreshments will be served.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mira
>>
>> Screening:  Margie and Robert Boldeagle
>> Where:  Bowers Auditorium in Sage Hall (205 Prospect Street, New Haven)
>> When:  Thursday November 15, 6:30 pm
>>
>> Synopsis
>> Margie and Robert Boldeagle are two of the cofounders of a Native 
>> American drum and dance group based in Staten Island, New York, an 
>> area not known for it's Native culture.   This film explores the ways 
>> they have come to place value on their identities as Native 
>> Americans, and how they have worked to maintain this culture in their 
>> lives.  Without any links to a reservation, and with uncertainty 
>> about their own backgrounds, they have forged ties with other "Urban 
>> Indians," often of very different tribes, in order to perpetuate 
>> Native American traditions. Their efforts are set against the words 
>> and stories of Touching Leaves Woman, one of the last elders raised 
>> in the traditional ways of the Lenape, the tribe that originally 
>> lived in Staten Island and to which Margie has ancestral ties.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mira Manickam
>> Candidate for Master of Environmental Sciences
>> Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
>> <mailto:miramanickam at gmail.com>miramanickam at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:miramanickam at gmail.com>

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