ONTARIO -- Weengushk International Film Festival with Free Online Festival

'Seeds' by writer-director-actor Kaniehtiio Horn, Kahnawake Mohawk, is a comedy thriller with co-star Graham Greene. Seeds is one of the new films in the Weengushk's International Film Festival's free online festival. 

September 23, 2025 - Please include in your news items and editorial plans Weengushk International Film Festival and Cultural Event Announces 2025 Programming on Manitoulin Island and Free Virtual Festival Celebrating Indigenous Storytelling and Legacy Makers: Honouring Chiefs Who Paved The Path Forward

'Free Leonard Peltier' Image by Censored News Opening Night Film Free Leonard Petlier Artistic Director Dr. Shirley Cheechoo CM is pleased to announce programming for the 9th Annual Weengushk International Film Festival (WIFF) taking place October 3 - 5, 2025 on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario plus FREE virtual screenings October 3-10, 2025. The Weengushk International Film Festival is Northern Ontario’s premier Indigenous film festival, with this year’s festival dedicated to powerful storytelling, immersive cultural events and cinematic excellence. The theme of WIFF 2025 is The Legacy Makers: Honoring Chiefs Who Paved the Path Forward celebrating and honouring the legacies of chiefs who are guiding their communities toward the future they envisioned. Their work resonates with WIFF’s collective mission to create lasting impact that honours the past, embraces the present and builds a strong future for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.

Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew to Join Freedom Flotilla 'Letter on the Siege on Gaza'

"This Warrior Flag was actually at Standing Rock," said Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree Dene on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza today. This flag also flew at the Wet'suwet'en's Gidimt'en Checkpoint. The women also brought an Anishinaabe flag that flew at 1492 Land Back Lane at Six Nations. Remembering the photos of the Warrior flag in Jabalia in Gaza, she said, "This is a symbol of Global Indigenous Solidarity, and Global Indigenous Solidarity means that none of us are free until all of us are free." Agnew said, "I have joined the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break the siege on Gaza with Dr. Suzanne Shoush and fellow comrades from Turtle Island. Break the siege on Gaza NOW! Solidarity to the global Indigenous resistance."

Inuk Woman Joins Flotilla to Gaza 'No one should face injustice alone'

Aka Hansen, Inuk said today, "We’ve set off and are ready to go upset their colonization by bringing humanitarian aid."  On the boat to Gaza, Sept. 20, 2025

Inuk Woman Joins Flotilla to Gaza 'No one should face injustice alone' 

'Solidarity is Stronger than Fear'

-- Aka Hansen

Censored News, Sept. 16, 2025

The Long Talk with Leonard Peltier: From boarding school to the good fight, and home again

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/leonard_peltier_interview_democracy_now_exclusive

The Long Talk with Leonard Peltier: From boarding school to the good fight, and home again

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 19, 2025

TURTLE MOUNTAIN, North Dakota -- From boarding school to the fishing rights struggle in the Northwest, to the Trail of Broken Treaties and Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier fought the good fight, and after 49 years and two months in prison, it brought him home again.

Speaking with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! from his home on Turtle Mountain, Peltier shares the reality of being in prison. Even before his long imprisonment, the battle for justice propelled him forward.

Peltier thought he would die in prison.

Recounting his life, Peltier remembers the starvation in his homeland as the U.S. attempted termination and the threat of death by the U.S. military for those at Wounded Knee. Peltier remembers being arrested with Marlon Brando, the injustice that imprisoned him, and his life and his struggles today.

Listen:

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home -- Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/leonard_peltier_interview_democracy_now_exclusive

Amy Goodman speaks with Leonard Peltier at his home on Turtle Mountain, on the day after his 81st birthday. Remembering the brutality of boarding school, Peltier says, the purpose of boarding schools is "to take the Indian out of the Indians." The danger continues, Peltier adds. "Look at what they’re doing in Palestine, killing women, children, babies, unborn babies. That’s what they did to us, man. And here it is still happening."

Takeover of BIA in Washington 1972 during Trail of Broken Treaties.

Peltier remembers helping organize the United Tribes of All Indians, the battle for hunting and fishing rights, and Treaties, and the takeover of Fort Lawton in Washington State -- before he joined the American Indian Movement. Peltier describes the GOON Squad and the Reign of Terror on Pine Ridge and how AIM stood up to them. At Wounded Knee, Nixon was going to wipe them out. 

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