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Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
Screen Gather
Gather is available for educational sales via Kanopy. Organizations in Indian Country seeking a DVD screener should email gather@firstnations.org. If you’re interested in a community screening or non-Kanopy educational screening, please contact Tarek Shoukri (ts@visitfilms.com)
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Journalism Projects
Organic reach: Food sovereignty moves to the web
Colonial contact brought foreign food and disease to tribal nations. Now, a digital generation is reconnecting with tradition.
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Members of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation are keeping traditional foodways alive in the face of climate change and human impact.