Description:

KANENON:WE (ORIGINAL SEEDS)
(Katsitsionnni Fox, 2024, 27 min, digital projection)

Block Cinema welcomes Evanston's Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum for a screening of Katsitsionni Fox’s film KANENON:WE - ORIGINAL SEEDS and a presentation by one of the film’s featured seedkeepers, Dr. Rebecca Webster. 

KANENON:WE - ORIGINAL SEEDS (pronounced Ga nah: seed, ooh we: original) is a short documentary featuring three Indigenous women who are stepping back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers, honoring the work of our ancestors by regenerating and rematriating sacred seeds for future generations, and offering a glimpse into the challenges facing the world related to food security.

Schedule of Events:

6:00pm: Film starts

6:30pm-7:30pm: Talk with Becky Webster, Special guest from the film & Haudenosaunee seedkeeper

About the Speaker:

Dr. Rebecca Webster, an Oneida Nation citizen, is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her research focuses on tribal governance and food sovereignty, viewing Indigenous farming as an act of resistance and self-determination. She farms on her homestead, sharing practices via her YouTube channel, “Ukwakhwa (Our Foods),” and through the non-profit Ukwakhwa, Inc. She’s also a founding member of two Oneida farming cooperatives focused on heirloom crops.

“We recognized how fragile our food system is. This is about empowering our people to be able to reclaim the processing and growing of our Indigenous foods.” — Rebecca Webster, Kanenon:we – Original Seeds