EEFF 2024 - October 19: Sustainability Day - Session 1

Our Flags, "New Glory"* - Sixth grade students make flags that represent themselves, their cultures, communities, and land. Water, Star Medicine* - Dr. Lisa Spencer assigns her Santa Fe middle school students the study of water. They traveled to sites to explore the Rio Grande, drought in New Mexico, and farming in the desert by early Pueblo peoples. Interviews were conducted that include the research of New Zealand Māori Scientist, Veda Austin. This film also explores water beyond the science realm to include the emotional, historic, and spiritual power of water. It also explores water being from outer space, perhaps from asteroids, and the study of water on Mars. About 10% of the footage is from various NASA stock footage. This film won Audience Choice Award for middle school films in New Mexico. The Return of Nóohàh-Tokána - Nóouhàh-Toka’na, known as swift fox in English, once roamed the North American Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Like bison, pronghorn and other plains animals, Nóouhàh-Toka’na held cultural significance for the Native Americans who lived alongside them. But predator control programs in the mid-1900s reduced the foxes to just 10 percent of their native range. At the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana, members of the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes are working with the Smithsonian and other conservation partners to restore biodiversity and return Nóouhàh-Toka’na to the land. Tentsítewahkwe - Haudenosaunee people follow the season cycles of the earth. Our mothers and grandmothers knew how to take what was harvested from the land to create what was needed for their families. They gathered clay to create intricate pottery and pipes, they wove matts from bullrush and cattail, they tanned moose hides and adorned them with quillwork. Much of this land based knowledge went to sleep as a result of colonial practices including boarding schools, forced religion and land theft. Today we can marvel at the work of our ancestral grandmothers from behind the glass cases of museums. Sometimes generations separate us from the knowledge of how our grandmothers created these things, but there is a connection, a blood memory that we carry inside of us. Jessica Shenandoah is Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and comes from a large family of knowledge keepers. As a young girl it was normal for her to go with her mother and grandmother to pick medicines, berries and wild food plants. She is now a mother of four, seeking to bring back the land based practices that have been lost. Jessica reaches both inside and outside Haudenosaunee territories to find those who have reconnected this knowledge, so she can bring it back to our community and the future generations. She embodies Tentsítewahkwe, as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the earth. Attending Filmmakers: LIsa Spencer (Water, Star Medicine) and Kim-Jimi (Our Flags, "New Glory") Community Partner: EDELIC Action Event: Pastoral Walk led by Friends of Family Farmers (details on website) Hempcrete Workshop Workshop led by EDELIC 5-6 PM @ Eugene Art HouseDocumentaryPT52M2024-10-19EEFF 2024 - October 19: Sustainability Day - Session 1"EEFF 2024 - October 19: Sustainability Day - Session 1"EEFF

Showtimes

October 19, 1:00 pm