“The poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou said, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

Dawn Neptune Adams understands and has been exploring history’s wrenching pain against her people in a new documentary. Adams and other filmmakers at Upstander Project are trying to teach others through a short documentary called "Bounty."

Three families in Maine — all members of the Penobscot Nation — brought their children to the Old State House in Boston, to the room where a proclamation was signed close to 250 years before. Issued by the government, the proclamation promised to pay settlers to kill Native Americans.

The film takes place here. “

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