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Honor thy mother / Stourwater Pictures ; produced and directed by Lucy Ostrander ; writer, Gina Corpuz, Lucy Ostrander.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian women--North America.
- Indian women.
- Women agricultural laborers--United States--Social conditions.
- Women agricultural laborers.
- Children of agricultural laborers--Washington (State)--Bainbridge Island.
- Children of agricultural laborers.
- Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions.
- Multiracial people.
- Race discrimination--United States--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- Women agricultural laborers--Social conditions.
- North America.
- United States.
- Washington (State)--Bainbridge Island.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- History.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color.
- Place of Publication:
- [Bainbridge Island, Washington] : Stourwater Pictures, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English; closed-captioned in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people, in the early 1940s. They came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers. Many, just released from the Indian Residential Schools, fell in love in the strawberry fields and married Filipino immigrants. Despite having left their homeland and possible disenfranchisement from their tribes, they settled on the Island to raise their mixed heritage (Indipino) children. The voices of the Indipino children, now elders, are integral in the storytelling of their mother's experiences marrying Asian men and settling in a distant land. They share their confusion of growing up with no sense of belonging in either culture and raised in poverty as the children of berry farmers, some with no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing. In a post-World War II racist environment, they grew up in homes burdened with their father and mother's memory of the 227 Bainbridge Island Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes after President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19th, 1942. Brought to light, in the oral history interviews of the Indipino elders, is the effect that historical trauma has on children, more specifically children whose mothers survived Indian Residential Schools.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Gina Corpuz.
- Credits:
- Director of photography and editor, Don Sellers.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2021.
- Local Sightings Film Festival, Official Selection, 2021; Social Justice Film Festival, Official Selection; West Sound Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary, 2021
- Description based on DVD version record; title from title screen (viewed August 17, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
- Other Format:
- DVD version: Honor thy mother.
- OCLC:
- 1288703341
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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