Mini-festival Canadian and US Indigenous Culture

03-05-2025 | 13:30 - 17:00 | Festival

To mark the opening of the new exhibition ‘Indigenous Liberators’ at the Vrijheidsmuseum, the Infocentrum WO2 Nijmegen is organising a special mini-festival on Canadian and American indigenous cultures.

Programme

- Interviews with indigenous guests from Canada and the United States
- Presentation on Cree storytelling
- Traditional dance, performed by renowned powwow dancer Adam Tsosie Nordwall and Alison Commando
- European premiere of documentary Storypole

Adam Tsosie Nordwall (Shoshone, Chippewa, Navajo) is an award-winning dancer who travels the world to share his cultural heritage with others through dance. He has been dancing all his life, like his father and grandfather before him, and in turn passes this on to his own children. Adam now dances mainly in the style of Grass dance from the Northern Plains and Great Lakes region. Adam was awarded first place at the Worlds Largest Powwow gathering in Albequerque, New Mexico, and has also won many first prizes in Canada.

Storypole is a documentary that reveals the story of the world's tallest totem pole. On 2 July 1956, master wood carver Mungo Martin (Kwagiulth Nation, B. C.) presented a giant cedar story pole, measuring up to 40 metres high, on the grounds of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thousands of indigenous and non-indigenous people gathered to attend. Since then, the story pole has been known as the tallest in the world, although its true significance goes beyond that. Elsewhere from the Three First Nations, this film shows how the story pole relates to Indigenous war commemoration in the context of truth and recognition.

Please note: location is De Klif in Nijmegen-Noord.

Walk-in: 13:15, start of programme: 13:30

Tickets are available at https://tickets.vrijheidsmuseu...

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