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<\/a><\/p>\nFor decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads maintaining the trans-continental network. Like the highly skilled Mohawk ironworkers, this connection of aboriginal people leaving their homeland to work conveys a dedication to their livelihood. Metal Road enters the world of Navajo families amid history of railroad work by the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang. Replacing rails on more than 64,000 miles of track, the unknown journey of the Navajo trackmen in the United States reveals an invisible group of workers striving to earn retirement benefits and inspires us to rethink the American work ethic.<\/p>\n
About our Filmmakers:<\/h3>\n
LaRonn Katchia\u00a0 <\/strong>is a Director\/Cinematographer\/ and tribal member of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.\u00a0 He is currently pursuing a passionate film making career in Portland, OR. LaRonn grew up on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and transitioned to the city of Portland for film school. His love and passion for film resides from the influence of the commonly mistreated portrayal of Native Americans in Hollywood films today.\u00a0 <\/strong>His mission “is to change the Native stereotypes of film and get it right this time. The Native American perspective is what’s missing in Hollywood today and needs to be brought to light. There are too many untouched original stories waiting to be filmed, and that are being filmed by a Native American director”.<\/p>\nIsaac Trimble\u00a0 <\/strong>(Apache \/ Yaqui) is a well-known and respected Native American Flute Artist and Film Producer in the Northwest. His love for the performing arts started in 1988, when he first joined a group called Raven Wind Players formed by playwright Maury Evans. Isaac’s passion for theater and film comes from wanting to make sure Native Americans are accurately portrayed.\u00a0 About his\u00a0productions he says \u00a0\u201cWe want to make film that accurately represents Native people and garners the respect of the film industry\u201d – Isaac Trimble<\/em><\/p>\nMarie-Celine Einish<\/strong>, hails from the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach and grew up in the Cree community of Chisasibi, a part of Quebec that can only be reached by train or airplane.\u00a0 She is a champion hoop dancer and studied psychology at Concordia University.\u00a0 Marie-Celine lives in Montreal and serves as an Associate at National Public Relations – Cabinet de relations publiques National, working in community development and communications for First Nations governments.<\/p>\nJanene Yazzie<\/strong> (Dine), studied International Politics at Columbia University and is a Human Rights and Indigenous Rights advocate that has made a career out of her advocacy through social entrepreneurship. The co-founder and CEO of Sixth World Solutions, she works to advance economic, environmental and social justice through development of community policy, projects and programs that promote long-term sustainability. Her work is centered on empowerment and founded in Indigenous concepts of seventh-generation planning.<\/p>\nAndrea Landry<\/strong> is Anishinaabe and holds a Master in Communications and Social Justice from the University of Windsor.\u00a0 She is the Governance Development Officer of Pays Platt First Nation and teaches indigenous studies and political science at the University of Saskatchewan.\u00a0 Andrea\u00a0is a former youth executive for the National Association of Friendship Centres and North American Representative for the United Nations Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. She does community work in the areas of grief and recovery, suicide prevention, sexual abuse and family systems.<\/p>\nManuel Ibanez<\/strong>, is Quechua and an award-winning filmmaker. He is a founding member of Habitat Pro Association and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus to the UN, and is a producer of its documentary, “An Introduction to the UNPFII.” Manuel is a certified cinema director from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University and the Hollywood Film Institute. He has volunteered and worked for UNTV and holds several television credits as a director, cameraman and producer in diverse media networks in the US. He has produced the feature film \u201cTales From A Ghetto Klown\u201d along side Oscar winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens. He\u2019s currently in pre-production for an Indigenous TV series pilot for the National Peruvian Television Channel.<\/p>\nKalvin Hartwig<\/strong>, is Bear Clan Anishinaabe from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.\u00a0 He holds an MA in International Relations from Yale University, where he focused in indigenous rights and indigeneity.\u00a0 Kalvin also holds a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from Concordia University in Montreal.\u00a0 Kalvin was recently the On-Site Country Director for the Peace Exchange, a fair trade organization working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is currently working for his Tribal government conducting research for developing a full-immersion language program in Anishinaabemowin for youth living in his community, and on a full-feature film about native identity.<\/p>\nSarah del Seronde<\/strong> is an instructor in the Cinema\/Communications Department at Dawson College and producer for Aboriginal Lens LTD. She is from the Bennett Freeze area of the Navajo Reservation, an undeveloped area of land still in ownership dispute with the Hopi Tribe. She obtained a MA degree in American Indian Studies from University of Arizona. Making the River<\/em>, a biographical tale of an American Indian charged with the murder of a prison guard, took her inside the Washington State Penitentiary. Sarah Del also directed a film about Navajo Railroaders titled Metal Road<\/em>.<\/p>\nPamela J. Peters<\/strong> (Din\u00e9 Nation) is an Indigenous multimedia documentarian born and raised on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She has a BA in American Indian Studies and Film Television from UCLA.\u00a0 Her work presents personal stories of contemporary urban Indians in photography and film.\u00a0 She pushes viewers\u00a0to critically analyze the\u00a0psychological and historical structures of Native\u00a0Americans\u00a0in mass media.\u00a0\u00a0 Her multimedia work reflects the perseverance of American Indian cultural identities today. She produces living portraits of American Indians reflected through an indigenous aesthetic lens. Pamela works as a culture consultant and native talent referral for many networks such as: FX, Comedy Central, HBO and MTV. She has also professionally produced five award winning films for the Southern California Indian Center\u2019s InterTribal Entertainment multimedia program, co-created film workshops for Native youth, produced PSA\u2019s for Fox Studio\u2019s American Indian Summer Institute program, and co-hosted \u201cBringing the Circle Together,\u201d a monthly showcase of Indigenous documentaries at the Japanese American National Museum National Center for Preservation of Democracy Tateuchi Forum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Location and Time:<\/h4>\n
University of St. Thomas
\nO\u2019Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium
\n(located on Cleveland Ave and Portland Ave)
\nUniversity of St. Thomas
\n2115 Summit Ave
\nSt. Paul, MN 55105
\nSt. Thomas Campus Map
\n3:30-5:30<\/p>\n
Thank you to our sponsors:
\nAugsburg University
\nAmerican Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies<\/span> Department
\nAmerican Culture and Difference Program, University of St. Thomas
\nInstitute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 11 Join us for a night of short films that include fantasy-drama, hybrid poetry, narrative and documentary.\u00a0 Our screening will include conversations with the filmmakers about their work. Missing Indigenous (LaRonn Katchia, director; Isaac Trimble, producer, 2017) Set in a rural reservation town, Missing Indigenous begins as two detectives, played by Solomon …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50462"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50912,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions\/50912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/filmseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Missing Indigenous<\/strong> (LaRonn Katchia, director; Isaac Trimble, producer, 2017)