Orange Shirt Day Event – A screening of the medium-length film The Kablona Keepers (69min)

Wednesday, September 25 at 10am in 5B.16: A screening of the medium-length film The Kablona Keepers (69min)

This film is an intimate portrait of the dynamic Indigenous community that succeeded in protecting the remote Sacred Headwaters, known as the Klabona, in northwest British Columbia from industrial activities. Spanning 15 years of matriarch-led resistance, the film follows a small group of determined elders in the village of Iskut as they heal from the wounds of colonization to push back against law enforcement, the government, and some of the world’s largest multinational companies. Nestled between scenes of stand-offs and blockades, land defenders reflect on how their history of forced displacement, residential schools, and trauma strengthened their resolve to protect the very land that was so essential to their healing journey. Here’s a trailer for this 2022 documentary.