Gather

Publication/Creation:: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, [2020]
Format:: Video or Visual Material

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Full Title:: Gather / Monument Releasing : Ager Meillier Films, Inc. ; First Nations Deveopment Institute ; Illumine Group ; directed by Sanjay Rawal

Additional Author/Creators:: Rawal, Sanjay, film producer and film director
Meiller, Tanya Ager, film producer
Harjo, Sterlin, film producer
Meiller, Alexander, editor of moving image work
First Nations Development Institute
Illumine Group
Kanopy (Firm)

Genre:: Documentary films
Feature films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Internet videos
Subjects:: Indigenous peoples--Food--North America
Food sovereignty--United States
Indigenous peoples--North America--Social life and customs

Summary:: Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
Language:: English
Language Note:: In English with optional English captions for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (74 min.)) : sound, color
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
Participant/Performer Note:: Featuring: Twilia Cassadore, San Carlos Apache ; Nephi Craig, White Mountain Apache ; Elsie DuBray, Cheyenne River Sioux and MHA ; Fred DeBray, Cheyenne River Sioux ; Samual Gensaw III, Yorok ; Peter Sensaw, Yorok ; JonLuke Gensaw, Yurok ; Clayton Harvey, White Mountain Apache ; Margie Mary Bendle Stevens, San Carlos Apache.
Creation/Production Credits Note:: Produced by Tanya Ager Meiller ; edited by Alexander Meiller ; producers Sterlin Harjo, Sanjay Rawal ; composer Michael A. Levine ; original songs by Raye Zaragoza.