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in partnership with full circle: first nations performance
a way forward: a four part documentary
a way forward is an educational documentary series exploring parallel viewpoints on food sovereignty across four Indigenous communities. Each episode offers an intimate exploration of how different nations across the globe are reclaiming traditional food systems to foster self-sufficiency, cultural preservation, and a relational understanding to the flora and fauna of each region. From the depths of the Fraser River, to Chu Chua BC, and crossing into the Rocky Mountains, we land in the heart of the Maya.
"i just feel at this point i cant believe that there's not more outcry regarding the disappearance of the salmon at this point, considering that the salmon have given themselves indiscriminately and provided for us, and that's the reason why we are standing where we are standing is because of what they have sacrificed for us".- mike sparrow, musqueam
"i think that one of the critical areas of food sovereignty between indigenous people across bc and across canada as long as they are living in can support that disbursement of food is that we as indigenous people have to put our trade lines back and in order. we have to start trading amongst ourselves".-fred fortier, secwepmec/nlaka’pamux
“see the markings there. that's the sign of the deers scraping their antlers. they take the velvet off and then it turns into a horn. in the old days they would use that for babies, they would make a bed for them with that”.
-colin simeon, îyethka
“what would happen if the soil lost fertility? no longer produce anything, no fruit trees, no corn, no beans, no nothing, nothing. what would happen? what are we going to live on? what is our food going to be?”
-inès cuj, kaqchikel
