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The largest Indian massacre in American history occurred on January 29, 1863 near the border between Idaho and Utah. This documentary short revisits the dark history of early Mormon settlement in Utah. Mae Parry, an 86-year-old elder and tribal historian for the Northwestern Band of Shoshone, recounts her tribe’s experiences and her family’s hardship. The result is an honest and heartbreaking look at the interactions between Mormons and Native Americans that traumatically echo its effects even today. Angelo Baca is a student in the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is pursuing an interdisciplinary Master’s degree that combines work in the University’s Communications and American Indian Studies departments He is currently working on documentaries from an indigenous perspective, including alonger documentary that also concerns issues surrounding spirituality and outside Christian influences within indigenous communities.
Director: Angelo Baca Producer: Dan Hart, Angelo Baca ProductionCompany: Takin’ It Back Productions, Native Voices Program Cinematographer: Jennifer Sjolund, Virgina Thiel, Angelo Baca Cast: Mae Parry, Grant Parry, Will Bagley |
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