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I'm Inuk, but I'm Black: Comprehending my identity as an Inuk Jamaican woman
“I've been raised Inuk, to eat our food and love the land we call home..there's more to me—and I need to understand who I am and what I represent. I feel Inuk, but I look Black” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/nowornever/rallies-rest-and-resilience-1.6007086/i-m-inuk-but-i-m-black-comprehending-my-identity-as-an-inuk-jamaican-woman-1.6007104
“I've been raised Inuk, to eat our food and love the land we call home..there's more to me—and I need to understand who I am and what I represent. I feel Inuk, but I look Black” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/nowornever/rallies-rest-and-resilience-1.6007086/i-m-inuk-but-i-m-black-comprehending-my-identity-as-an-inuk-jamaican-woman-1.6007104
“Identity on a plate: Caterer embraces her Anishinaabe-Jamaican roots through food.
Melissa Brown combines her 2 cultures to create something new.” #BlackOnThePrairies https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/black-on-the-prairies-identity-on-a-plate-1.5980710
Melissa Brown combines her 2 cultures to create something new.” #BlackOnThePrairies https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/black-on-the-prairies-identity-on-a-plate-1.5980710
Reflections on Afro-Indigenous identity, motherhood and the power of hair:
“Growing up Black and Indigenous on the Prairies meant not seeing many others like me...for much of my childhood, I thought my sister and I were the only ones.” #BlackOnThePrairies https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/hair-and-the-ties-that-bind
“Growing up Black and Indigenous on the Prairies meant not seeing many others like me...for much of my childhood, I thought my sister and I were the only ones.” #BlackOnThePrairies https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/hair-and-the-ties-that-bind
One of Ours. Winner—Special Jury Prize Hotdocs
“Josiah Wilson was adopted as a baby in Haiti and raised in an Indigenous family in Calgary..racially profiled at an Indigenous basketball tournament and refused the right to play a sport he deeply loves #yyc https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=141722~367cbc04-eb03-453a-90f8-88ca48c4cf79&epguid=da382742-ea7c-44b6-ab36-80af94cedc7f&
“Josiah Wilson was adopted as a baby in Haiti and raised in an Indigenous family in Calgary..racially profiled at an Indigenous basketball tournament and refused the right to play a sport he deeply loves #yyc https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=141722~367cbc04-eb03-453a-90f8-88ca48c4cf79&epguid=da382742-ea7c-44b6-ab36-80af94cedc7f&
The Special Jury Prize—Canadian Feature Documentary—was presented to “One of Ours”, Directed by @Yazbegrams
From the jury: “This coming of age story adeptly and lovingly examines the nuances of race, sexuality and family." #Indigenous Via @hotdocs https://twitter.com/hotdocs/status/1390809618830475265?s=21
From the jury: “This coming of age story adeptly and lovingly examines the nuances of race, sexuality and family." #Indigenous Via @hotdocs https://twitter.com/hotdocs/status/1390809618830475265?s=21
Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous Experience
NATALIE BALL (Black, Modoc, Klamath)
MARTHA REDBONE (Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee, African-American descent)
AMBER STARKS aka Melanin Mvskoke (Muscogee/Creek Citizen)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yupik, African-Amer)
NATALIE BALL (Black, Modoc, Klamath)
MARTHA REDBONE (Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee, African-American descent)
AMBER STARKS aka Melanin Mvskoke (Muscogee/Creek Citizen)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yupik, African-Amer)
NACF: Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous Experience:
Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous people “examining the relationships between black and Native cultural identities, notions of community recognition, artistic practice and activism #NACFforBlackLivesMatter https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/the-black-indigenous-afro-indigenous-experience
Black-Indigenous/Afro-Indigenous people “examining the relationships between black and Native cultural identities, notions of community recognition, artistic practice and activism #NACFforBlackLivesMatter https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/the-black-indigenous-afro-indigenous-experience
What It Means to Be Both Black and Indigenous:
-Autumn Rose Williams
-Anthony Tamez-Pochel
-Lilian Sparks Robinson
“the Center for Native American Youth hosted the event Celebrating Black & Indigenous Excellence as part of its Tele-Native Youth Series” https://m.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1160325101090277&ref=watch_permalink&_rdr
-Autumn Rose Williams
-Anthony Tamez-Pochel
-Lilian Sparks Robinson
“the Center for Native American Youth hosted the event Celebrating Black & Indigenous Excellence as part of its Tele-Native Youth Series” https://m.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1160325101090277&ref=watch_permalink&_rdr
