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Director Alanis Obomsawin

Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man
(1997, 58 min. Documentary) CANADA
Director: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Producer: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)
Produced by: National Film Board of Canada

A portrait of Mohawk ironworker Randy Horne, who "booms out" to do construction work in cities like New York, and who is part of his community's powerful resistance to the crisis at Oka in 1990 when the government tried to encroach on Mohawk sacred lands.

Image credit: Alanis Obomsawin - courtesy of the filmmaker

Alanis Obomsawin

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1997 Native American Film and Video Festival - World Premiere
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