DINNER & A MOVIE: MESNAK Friday, Nov. 2 Dinner: 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Film Screening: 7 p.m. Rasmuson Theater, First Level
MESNAK (2011, 96 min.) Canada, Yves Sioui Durand (Huron-Wendot) Producer: Ian Boyd When he unexpectedly receives a photo of his birth mother, young actor Dave Brodeur (Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles) leaves Mon- treal and his repertory work on Shakespeare’s Hamlet for the desolate reserve community of Kinogamish, in search of his Native history and culture. He fi nds his mother is on the verge of marrying the town’s chief (and fellow recovering alcoholic), who is basking in the proceeds from a logging deal. With the help of a local sage and friend of Brodeur’s long-dead father, he uncovers secrets that destabilize the town’s balance of power and explain his own past. World premiere at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. For mature audiences. Question and answer with director Yves Sioui Durand and producer Ian Boyd. Cuisine from our Zagat-rated Mitsitam Cafe will be available for purchase from 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Seats in the theater are limited, register online at:
www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/calendar.
NATIVE THEATER
THE QUEEN’S WOMEN Sunday, Oct. 14 2 p.m. Rooms 4018-4019, Fourth Level This audience-interactive short play is a re-telling of an event that happened at the Salvation Army Hall in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1897. The women’s branch of the Hawai- ian Patriotic League hosted a meeting and welcomed emissaries of Queen Lili’uokalani, who were on Hawaii Island to gather peti- tion signatures in opposition to annexation of Hawaii to the United States. The author of the play, Helen Edyth Didi Lee Kwai, was Native Hawaiian. Seating is limited and is fi rst come, fi rst served.
In 1877, the Ponca people were exiled from their Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory in present- day Oklahoma. To honor his dying son’s last wish to be buried in his homeland, Chief Standing Bear set-off on a grueling, six-hundred-mile journey home. Captured en-route, Standing Bear sued a famous U.S. army general for his freedom. The Chief stood before the court to prove that an Indian was a person under the law. This high-definition documentary weaves interviews, re-creations, and present-day scenes to tell a story of human rights—one that resonates powerfully in the present.
For more information, visit
netNebraska.org/standingbear. Check your local listings at
pbs.org/stationfinder.
Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT), a nonprofit 501(c)(3), receives major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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