On this page, you can watch films, lectures, and video interviews related to the Transnationally Indigenous project. These include works produced by the Transnationally Indigenous team as well as mirrors of independently-produced work.
Visiting Kamui Mintara: Playground of the Gods
This short documentary produced by Transnationally Indigenous and shot by Morgaine Lee features Ainu scholar-advocate-artist Dr. Kanako Uzawa and SFU Indigenous studies lecturer Dr. Bryan Miles visiting Kamui Mintara, an Ainu sculpture park on Burnaby Mountain near Simon Fraser University (SFU). The two talk about how the sculpture park represents a meeting between Indigenous creative styles on two different continents: the Ainu of East Asia, and the Coast Salish Peoples of Western North America/Turtle Island.
Recasting Ainu Indigeneity in Museums through Performing Art with Dr. Kanako Uzawa
In this video lecture from August 2022, Ainu scholar, advocate, and artist Dr. Kanako Uzawa discusses how she uses performing arts to change the way Ainu people are portrayed in museums. Historically, Ainu people have been depicted as primitive in exhibitions around the world based on the judgements of non-Ainu ‘experts’. Dr. Uzawa hopes that by instead basing Ainu representation on the creative works of Ainu people themselves, this can change.
The lecture was presented by SFU’s David Lam Centre and UBC’s Centre for Japanese Studies. It was recorded at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
Let's Walk Together As One
This feature-length documentary by Dan Webb covers the first meeting of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) in 1974, which took place near Port Alberni, on the Tseshalt Reserve on Vancouver Island in Canada. The WCIP was the first globally Indigenous organization of its kind, and the film tracks the connections which blossomed between Indigenous activists in Canada, South America, and across the world.
Interview with NARP Member Gerry Ambers
In this interview, produced by Transnationally Indigenous and conducted by Dr. Glen Coulthard in 2023, ‘Namgis (Kwakwaka’wakw) Elder Gerry Ambers discusses the first-ever protest by the Native Alliance for Red Power (NARP). On March 12, 1968, Ambers and four other NARP members picketed a meeting by Residential School administrators in protest against the genocidal school system. The last Residential School closed in 1996. NARP protestors faced little sympathy from the general public, and were abused by the drivers of passing cars.