Free Screening of "Neither Wolf Nor Dog"
Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Kent Nerburn, this deeply moving film follows a white author who gets pulled into the heart of contemporary Native American life by a 95 year old Lakota elder and his side-kick in the sparse lands of the Dakotas.
Adding a special dimension to this event, author Kent Nerburn will join Gayogo̲hó:nǫˀ Learning Project board member Jim Wikel (Seneca-Cayuga Nation) for an engaging talkback session via Zoom, immediately following the film. This is a unique opportunity for audience members to delve deeper into the themes of the film and to hear firsthand insights from the author and from a Gayogo̲hó:nǫˀ perspective.
Book (free) tickets here or at the door
Book Discussion Group: As a follow-up to the film, the GLP will host a book group at Buffalo Street Books, Sunday June 22 at 2:00 pm, to discuss The Wolf at Twilight, the second book in Kent Nerbern’s trilogy.
Buffalo Street Books will have Mr. Nerbern’s books available for purchase at the Cinemapolis screening, and will offer a 10% discount on The Wolf at Twilight for discussion group participants.
This program is made possible in full with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County. Programming at Cinemapolis is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Cinemapolis is also supported by the Tompkins County Tourism Program, the Community Foundation of Tompkins County, and thousands of members and donors.Free Screening: Sugarcane
We would like to invite you to join us for a free community screening of the film
Sugarcane
Sunday September 29th, 3pm at Cinemapolis
Focusing in particular on St. Joseph’s Mission in Williams Lake, BC, Canada (closed in 1981), the documentary pieces together the testimony of former students and anthropological investigators to unearth the damning details of the violent systematic oppression that was allowed to inflict trauma and death upon a century of generations of their community. What ensues is a devastating bombshell of a reckoning…
…Sugarcane bursts with the acknowledgment that they are most concerned with the emotional and the personal: the preservation and healing of their communities, still standing despite it all.
(RogerEbert.com)
Along with our relatives in Canada, we will be honoring the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (Orange Shirt Day, September 30th) for Indian Boarding Schools, known in Canada as residential schools. On both sides of the border, the intent, in the words of the founder and longtime superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School, Brigadier General Richard Henry Pratt, was to “Kill the Indian and save the man.” Children were forcibly separated from their families and communities and put in these “schools.” They were forbidden to speak their languages or practice their cultural ways and were punished severely for doing so. The traumas they suffered carry on to this day in their descendents. As a direct result of the boarding schools, there are less than twenty first language Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ speakers left in three communities. The existence of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ Learning Project is also a direct result of the boarding schools as its efforts center on the revival and perpetuation of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ here in the homelands and beyond. Language and culture are healing elements. Towards that end, we invite you to join us not only in remembering our relatives who were stolen, but in supporting the resurgence of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ language and people here in the ancestral homelands.
We hope that you can join us for the free screening of Sugarcane on Sunday September 29th at Cinemapolis, along with any friends or family that you would like to invite. Members of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ Learning Project will be available to answer questions about our work as well as make available Orange T-shirts designed by our relatives in Canada specifically for this day.
For more information about the schools: https://boardingschoolhealing.org
Short video: members of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ Learning Project discuss the effects of Indian Boarding Schools
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/residential-school-tour-1.6983036
The free community screening of Sugarcane is made possible by generous support from The Learning Farm and the American Indian and Indigenous Study Program at Cornell University. Our thanks to Cinemapolis for partnering in this presentation.
Director Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance at Cinemapolis
Filmmaker Erica Tremblay (Seneca-Cayuga of Oklahoma) directed, produced, and co-wrote film festival fave Fancy Dance (2023). Tremblay’s characters in Fancy Dance, including Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone’s Jax, speak Gayogohó:nǫˀ and honor cultural practices.
The film’s run at Cinemapolis, in collaboration with the GLP celebrates the language in the Gayogohó:nǫˀ homelands where it arose. The film underscores the survival of Gayogohó:nǫˀ language and culture