The moving feature length documentary Gather shares stories Native Americans who are building their own future while wrestling with past injustices. What unites these motivated people is something often overlooked in human rights; food and the deep layers of tradition that surround it. Director Sanjay Rawal has found several different stories and interwoven them in an effective way, giving clarity to both the abundant atrocities imposed upon this continent’s indigenous people and the remarkable attempts by a new generation to bring back what has been lost. Following the film, we’ll speak with Elsie Dubray, a 17-year-old Cheyenne River Sioux scientist who looks at the health benefits of buffalo. We’ll also be joined by Chef Nephi Craig, an innovative White Mountain Apache chef who is using traditional ingredients to (re)create food that is traditional, sustainable and healthy for his people. The lessons from this film are wide-ranging with hopeful implications for anyone who believes in justice and appreciates the origins of their food.
Musician: Raye Zaragoza
Speakers: Sanjay Rawal, Elsie DuBray, Chef Nephi Craig
Films: Gather (75 min)
Moderator: Laura Shaunette
Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.
An indigenous chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon.
All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a way forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people.
- Year2020
- Runtime75 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSanjay Rawal
The moving feature length documentary Gather shares stories Native Americans who are building their own future while wrestling with past injustices. What unites these motivated people is something often overlooked in human rights; food and the deep layers of tradition that surround it. Director Sanjay Rawal has found several different stories and interwoven them in an effective way, giving clarity to both the abundant atrocities imposed upon this continent’s indigenous people and the remarkable attempts by a new generation to bring back what has been lost. Following the film, we’ll speak with Elsie Dubray, a 17-year-old Cheyenne River Sioux scientist who looks at the health benefits of buffalo. We’ll also be joined by Chef Nephi Craig, an innovative White Mountain Apache chef who is using traditional ingredients to (re)create food that is traditional, sustainable and healthy for his people. The lessons from this film are wide-ranging with hopeful implications for anyone who believes in justice and appreciates the origins of their food.
Musician: Raye Zaragoza
Speakers: Sanjay Rawal, Elsie DuBray, Chef Nephi Craig
Films: Gather (75 min)
Moderator: Laura Shaunette
Gather follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.
An indigenous chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; in South Dakota a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon.
All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a way forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people.
- Year2020
- Runtime75 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSanjay Rawal