News
Upstander Project Team
More than $3.4 million in grants awarded to ...

Upstander Project is thrilled to be one of the grantees as part of this year’s Boston Cultural Council/Reopen Creative Boston funding!

,

‘All the Alarm Bells’: Panel Discusses Future of Indian Child Welfare Act at IOP Forum

,

““A panel discussed the history and impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act — which faces a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court — at a Harvard Institute of Politics Forum on Monday evening.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case Wednesday against the ICWA, a 1978 law regulating the foster care and adoption systems for Native American children to prioritize placement with relatives or other Native American households. The challenge to the law originated from a Texas adoption case and questions the constitutionality of the ICWA.”

, ,

IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists Announced: ‘Fire Of Love,’ ‘The Territory,’ ‘All That Breathes’, ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’ Gain Traction

, ,

“A handful of awards season frontrunners is starting to emerge with the announcement today of the IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists.”

Upstander Project’s Bounty and Reciprocity Project Season One short ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) are included on the shorts shortlist.

,

Check It Out At Mashpee Public Library - October 14, 2022

,

“Saturday, October 15, at 4 PM—Join us for a virtual screening of the 9-minute documentary film, “Bounty,” followed by a panel discussion.

In “Bounty,” Penobscot parents and children commemorate their survival by reading and reacting to the Phipps Proclamation, a government-issued proclamation that motivated colonial settlers to hunt, scalp and murder Indigenous people.”

,

Indigenous-made films about reciprocity inspire conversation on climate

,

“In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the first season of original short films made by Indigenous directors on their homelands, presented by Reciprocity Project, a collaboration between Nia Tero and Upstander Project in association with REI Co-op Studios, are now streaming at reciprocity.org and on REI’s YouTube channel.”

, ,

Teaching Indigenous Peoples' Day with the Documentary Dawnland

, ,

“About a year ago, a mesh orange fence showed up in a section of a park my family frequents. A tree near the mesh fencing was adorned with stuffed animals at its base; signs offered the explanation. The mesh fence was there to demarcate sacred land. This end of the park was a burial site of children who once attended an expansive Indian school in this part of Albuquerque. The school sprawled across acres. A street crossing through the area still reflects this past: Indian School Road.”

,

Cherokee Filmmaker Brings Short Film Home to Oklahoma's Deadcenter

,

Reciprocity Project filmmaker, Brit Hensel, is interviewed about her film “What They’ve Been Taught” (Udeyonv). She discusses the importance of language and land in Cherokee culture and her films. ‘The language is everything…Our language is so connected to our food, it’s connected to the place we come from, it’s connected to ceremony.”

, , ,

Imagine Studios to present 'Dawnland' on March 30

, , ,

A screening of Dawnland with a panel Q&A is being hosted on 3/30/2022 by The First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist Church, Congregation Ahavas Achim, Unity on the River, Theater in the Open, and Imagine Studios as part of the Newburyport Indigenous Peoples’ Day Initiative.