{"id":62532,"date":"2021-12-06T01:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62532"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:04:45","slug":"we-trust-artists-like-michelle-latimer-to-avoid-harming-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62532","title":{"rendered":"We trust artists like Michelle Latimer to avoid harming Indigenous people"},"content":{"rendered":"

We trust artists like Michelle Latimer to avoid harming Indigenous people<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NOW Toronto<\/a>
\n2020-12-21<\/p>\n

Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Trickster<\/em><\/a> and Inconvenient Indian<\/em><\/a> director Michelle Latimer<\/a> poses on top of a condo rooftop in Toronto<\/a>.
\nSamuel Engelking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers explains the particular kind of pain revelations about Michelle Latimer<\/a> have caused within the Indigenous film community<\/em><\/p>\n

We were gathered for a filmmaking workshop at the Urban Native Youth Association<\/a> in East Vancouver<\/a>. I was co-facilitating with filmmaker Jessica Hallenbeck<\/a>. One participant was that particular kind of shy brown-skinned Indigenous teenage boy who didn\u2019t yet know his worth in this world. He wore sweatpants, a hoodie and sneakers, and had a head of thick black hair. He was afraid to smile, much less make eye contact with the other teens in the room.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d asked the young people to introduce themselves \u2013 to give us their names, where they come from and what they found most exciting about film. When his turn came, he kept his gaze steady on one spot on the floor as he quietly shared his name and that he was from Vancouver<\/a>. I interjected. \u201cAnd, what nation are you from?\u201d He paused, and then whispered, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

My heart sank to untold depths. I had just inadvertently implied that an Indigenous youth who grew up in foster care didn\u2019t belong. Belonging is everything in Indigenous communities, but at that moment I made him feel so small. I still carry the shame from that interaction, knowing I could not undo that harm.<\/p>\n

People wonder how former Trickster<\/em><\/a> director Michelle Latimer<\/a>, whose identity has recently come under scrutiny, could claim to be Indigenous for so long without skepticism. She was trusted because the Indigenous film community is protective. We want to avoid doing harm to those who have experienced the trauma of displacement…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers explains the particular kind of pain revelations about Michelle Latimer have caused within the Indigenous film community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,8,3015,6462],"tags":[32596,32597,32356,28363],"class_list":["post-62532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-passing-2","tag-elle-maija-apiniskim-tailfeathers","tag-elle-maija-tailfeathers","tag-michelle-latimer","tag-now-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions\/62541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}