Gigiigemin Baaga’adoweyang “We are healed by stickball”
- 2024
- USA
- Duration:
- 11 mins
Overview
In its creation story, the game of Baaga’adowewin is given as a gift and tool for life. After the forced assimilation of Indigenous communities, the game was suppressed and remained dormant for almost a century. This film shares the return of Baaga’adowewin, or stickball, as Ojibwe communities walk the path of cultural revitalization and exercise their treaty rights to continue to heal from historical traumas and overcome challenges of today.
Production Team
- Director
- Finn Ryan
Festival Screenings
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Ojibwe treaty tribes created the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission in 1984. Our staff serve 11 Ojibwe tribes in support of property rights reserved in treaty negotiations during the mid 1800's. Commonly known as treaty rights, tribal hunting, fishing, and gathering includes public lands and waters in a region called the Ceded Territory of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.
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