Dana Claxton Hunkpapa Wi

I Want to Know Why

1994, 6.20mins
The videomaker investigates the women in her family who have succumbed prematurely to external forces of racism and poverty. Using repetition and manipulation of western images of First Nations culture with an at first timid, then demanding voice over, the video moves through sorrow and indignation with the processes of cultural genocide.

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