“History is the most fickle of the sciences. To record it objectively is an exercise in futility; to assume omniscience in the record is to be a fool. Still, the origin myths of the United States are peddled as self-evident truths, so when a group of artists and educators offer up a contribution that reassesses that record, they make it a priority to ensure as many people as possible rethink what they believe their histories to be. At least, that’s the case with the Upstander Project and their new documentary short Bounty, with a world premiere on November 10.

Bounty centers on the bounty system established by colonial Massachusetts to incentivize settler-colonists to exchange the scalps of Indigenous people for substantial pay.”

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