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posted by Robert DeVet in on sept. 7, 2013 - View profile

Halifax

SEEKING NETUKULIMK

screening at the Atlantic Film Festival


4:30pm
- 5:30pm
Vendredi Septembre 13 2013

Venue: Park Lane Cinemas
Address: 5657 Spring Garden Road

With film directors, Dr. Martha Stiegman (Dalhousie University), Kerry Prosper (Paqtnkek First Nation)
and co-producer, Dr. L.Jane McMillan (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities) in attendance.

Kerry Prosper is a passionate fisher and Mi’kmaq elder, who is teaching his grandchildren how to exercise their treaty rights by fishing eels. But those rights come with sacred responsibilities to care for the land and waters of Mi’kma’ki. Seeking Netukulimk is a lyrical exploration of the traditional laws that govern fishing in the Mi’kmaq world, and some of the political battles that have been fought to defend them.

Dr. L. Jane McMillan was eel fishing with Donal Marshall Jr., the morning he was arrested on charges that would make it all the way to the Supreme Court and win recognition of Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights. Kerry Prosper was Chief of Paqtnkek First Nation at the time, and remembers giving Jr. permission to fish in his people's district, as per Mi'kmaq customary law. September 13th was Donald Marshall Jr's birthday. Please join us in celebrating his legacy with this 22min documentary produced in honour of his memory, followed by a Q&A with Dr.L. J. McMillan, Kerry Prosper, and Martha Stiegman.

 
An excerpt of the film can be viewed here: 
 
Tickets can be purchased at the door, or via the Atlantic Film Festival website:
http://atlantic.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/atlanticshorts1_atlantic2013_atlantic2013
**Seeking Netukulimk was produced as part of the SSHRC-funded "Seeking Netukulimk: Mi'kmaq Knowledge, Culture, Capacity and Empowerment" Research Project**

 


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