MY NAME IS KAHENTIIOSTA

Directed by Alanis Obomsawin · Starring Kahentiiosta · 1995

A young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the 78-day Oka Crisis standoff is held because authorities refuse to accept her Indigenous name.

Alanis Obomsawin's compact, powerful portrait of how something as basic as a name became an act of resistance.

This short documentary by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day armed standoff in 1990.

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