The first annual First Nations Festival features films and videos–shorts, documentaries, and narratives–on Native American issues, including religious freedom, forced relocation, and cultural preservation. Presented by the Native American Film/Video Festival Committee. All screenings will be at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton, on Saturday, November 21; tickets are $5. For more information call 784-0808, 989-6206, or 281-4988.
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An oral history of Klickitat basket weaver Nettie Jackson Kuneki and an exploration of Klickitat river culture, by filmmakers Bushra Azzouz and Marlene Farnum (1990). On the same program, Harold of Orange, a 1983 short by Richard Weise. (1:00 and 7:00)
Sacred Buffalo People
Gary Rhine and Fidel Moreno’s hour-long documentary video about the implications of the recent U.S. Supreme Court Smith decision on the use of peyote in religious ceremonies; it explores the significance of the drug in relation to painting, beadwork, religion, law, medicine, and anthropology. On the same program, Ava Hamilton’s short Everything Has a Spirit, which discusses how the freedom-of-religion clause in the First Amendment doesn’t always protect Native American religions. (3:00)
Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations
