'We Breathe Again' Featured on Vision Maker Film Fest's focus on Alaska

We Breathe Again. Screen capture by Censored News.

'We Breathe Again' Featured this week on Vision Maker film festival's focus on Alaska

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

'We Breathe Again," is featured on today's Vision Maker Media film festival, free online. It shares the story of the pain and healing work underway as Native youths commit suicide, and a generation recovers from boarding school abuse where children were beaten for speaking for their language.

This week the film festival features films from Alaska, including Aleut Story, the documentary of Aleut forced into U.S. internment camps during WWII where many died of starvation and disease.

Watch the film

https://visionmakermedia.org/we-breathe-again

We Breathe Again. Screen capture by Censored News.

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'Finding Refuge' One dying woman searches for renewal on Refuge Rock, Alaska

Watch today on Vision Maker Media's free film festival online

'Finding Refuge' One dying woman searches for renewal on Refuge Rock, Alaska

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

'Finding Refuge,' filmed at Refuge Rock, Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska is featured this week on Vision Maker Media's film festival, free online.

The film documents the struggle of one dying woman to find the truth about the past. She hopes her Native culture and history doesn't end when she passes.

Isabella Blatchford (Sugpiaq/Alutiiq/Inupiaq), with her last dying breaths, confronts the violent event over two centuries ago when Russia invaded.

When Russians fired the cannons, five hundred men, women and children were killed in one day.

But the Sugpiaq survived.

Watch today and all week

https://visionmakermedia.org/finding-refuge

Isabella Blatchford gets quiet and contemplative during her trip to Refuge Rock. For years, she’d been dreaming of replacing her sense of shame with one of pride, in part by gong to Refuge Rock, where her people were brutally massacred during the colonization of Kodiak Island by Russian fur traders. -- Vision Maker Media. Photo by: Torsten Kjellstrand/Dog Mountain LLC.

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Watch 'Aleut Story' online: The horrific story of Aleut forced into internment camps during WWII

Watch 'Aleut Story' online: The horrific story of Aleut forced into internment camps during WWII 

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

'Aleut Story," is the horrific story of Aleut forced into internment camps during WWII, where they died of hunger and disease, and then were abandoned and left to starve. The film is featured today on Vision Maker Media's free online film festival.

Aleut Story reveals the ever-present death in these camps, where disease was rampant, from boils and tuberculosis. Aleut were placed in damp and rotting buildings for years, with little food or medicine.

Graves of Aleut who died at one of the internment camps.

Aleut men were forced into slave labor as seal hunters. The United States government threatened them and told them that they would never be able to return to their homes if they did not work in this forced labor.

It is an untold story that the United States government silenced for years.

Aleut Story: Watch on YouTube: 1 hour and 24 minutes https://youtu.be/0O8XYW38yqA

Watch film at https://visionmakermedia.org/aleut-story

In 1942, as World War II invaded Alaska, Aleut Americans were taken from their homes and removed to abysmal government camps 1,500 miles away. Death was ever-present in the camps. An estimated 10 percent of the men, women and children sent to the camps would die there—a death rate comparable to that suffered by Americans in foreign prisoner-of-war camps. As the Aleuts prayed for deliverance, "friendly forces" looted their homes and churches in the Aleutian and Pribilof islands. 

-- Aleut Story

More:

Previous article at Censored News "Aleut Internment Camps, the Untold Atrocity

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/aleut-internment-camps-untold-us.html

Censored News original article in 2012 was translated into Russian

http://mixednews.ru/archives/27384

Mohawk Nation News 'Important Notice on Solidarity Actions'

Posted on October 16, 2022

IMPORTANT  –

MOHAWK NATION NEWS NOTICE –

SOLIDARITY ACTIONS –

KAHNISTENSERA

SHEKON

MNN. Oct. 16, 2022. Sego. This is an important notice regarding the solidarity actions with the Mohawk Mothers that happened this week and the demonstration tomorrow. We knew nothing about this. 

The SQI has written to the Judge reporting that the offices of Arkéos were vandalized this week by people claiming to act on behalf of the Mohawk Mothers.

We are being held accountable legally of all such actions at this time, as the opponents are trying to construe us as criminals before the Judge with less than two weeks remaining before the hearing at the court on October 26, 2022.

As the plaintiffs in this matter we are being falsely considered as prime suspects in organizing these actions, thus risking police searches and prosecution, even though we have absolutely nothing to do with any of this. We remain in Kahnawake and work full time on court matters. We were not even aware that a demo was being organized. We greatly appreciate tokens of solidarity and demonstrations, but we ask you to be mindful of the dire legal repercussions for us, and the high risk of jeopardizing all the work we have invested for more than one year to obtain an injunction, which could be ruined, as well as the hope of our families to know the truth and get justice.

We invite you to consult our statements on Mohawk Nation News since last November 2021 to understand our position of peace and respect. We remind you all that skennen, peace, is one of the three pillars of the Kaianerehkowa (Great Peace), which has been and remains the way of Anowarakeh (Turtle Island) since time immemorial. It would harm us a lot if anyone was hurt, because our one and only objective as onkwehonwe and kahnistensera is to caretake the land and find our children in accordance with the Kaianerehkowa Kanien’keha:ka

Kahnistensera@riseup.net

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