The Open Door

Enduring Oka

April 17, 2024 The Brown Homestead Season 4 Episode 1
The Open Door
Enduring Oka
Show Notes

The Kanesatake Resistance, or Oka Crisis, was a defining historic moment with an enduring legacy in Canada’s challenged relationships with Indigenous peoples. Mohawk writer and director Tracey Deer speaks to her experience as a twelve-year old girl in the summer of 1990, and how it helped shape her powerful, and immensely personal 2021 Canadian Screen Award winning film, Beans.