“Older Than the Crown,” director Derrick LaMere (Rocky Boy, Little Shell, Sinixt, Entiat, Wenatchi).

This documentary follows the efforts of the Sinixt people to reclaim their ancestral lands in Canada and exercise their aboriginal right to hunt – lands and rights denied them by the Canadian government’s 1956 declaration.

Discussion/Q&A with Michael Marchand, former Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Shelly Boyd, a language and knowledge keeper for her people the Sn̓ ʕay̓ ckstx.

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The complete Festival Schedule and Film Synopses are posted at IIIRM.org

Additional info: Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Facebook/Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
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