The Abenaki People of the Dawn

Screening at the American Indian Film Festival - November 1 - 10 - San Francisco CA
website: festival.aifisf.com
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The Abenaki -- People of the Dawn
Director: G. Scott McLeod
Animated Short • 17m • Canada
Identity is often revealed in the most perilous situation. In The Abenaki -- People of the Dawn, it is Joe Obomsawin's intimate knowledge of the back roads and hidden trails on the frontiers of Quebec and New England that narrowly saves a group of bootleggers from capture. The escape also provides the impetus for this character's powerful and deeply personal retelling of the history of his people. Huddled around a fire in a remote cabin, Obomsawin unfolds the tragic, improbable and inspiring story of the Abenaki nation, reduced from 50,000 to some 1,500 over a few hundred years of colonial settlement. A collaboration between author and storyteller Mike Burns and director G. Scott Mac Leod as part of the animated series The Water of Life, The Abenaki -- People of the Dawn fuses traditional pencil animation with new digital media to tell the harrowing tale of a people's struggle for survival.

[@rubyfirefly2582]

Beautifully done.

[@lifeaccordingtogizzmoroncu9721]

I hunt and fish ...and still live on the river Merrimack and the pemmejawassick occasionally I will find a spearhead or some other artifact that the ancient ones left behind and it makes me feel connected with them. I have also. Gone to odanack far upstreamto the three rivers I felt a connection then also

[@IrishmanNH]

Ron Currier you live in NH?

[@brob5384]

That would be a magical thing to own. I am Abenaki. My great great grandmother was 100% she married a Frenchman of the name Guyet which later became Guyer. I can still feel the Indian blood in my veins. Treasure those finds my friend.

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