Stories I didn't know / a film by Rita Davern and Melody Gilbert ; directors, Rita Davern, Melody Gilbert ; producers, Rita Davern, Melody Gilbert ; writer, Melody Gilbert.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Stately, Ramona Kitto, on-screen participant.

Kitto (Rapper), on-screen participant.

Davern, Rita, film director, film producer, on-screen participant.

Gilbert, Melody, film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography.

Painter, Miles, director of photography, editor of moving image work.

Burren Girl (Firm), production company.

Collective Eye (Organization), distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--History.

Dakota Indians.

Indians, Treatment of--Minnesota.

Indians, Treatment of.

Genealogy.

Fort Snelling (Minn.).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (57 min.) : digital, sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Burren Girl, LLC, [2020]

Language Note:

Closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

digital

Summary:

It's a family reunion ... what could go wrong? Plenty, as we soon learn when Rita Davern exposes an ugly reality at the heart of a family legend. Her family members have always been proud to say that their great grandparents once owned Pike Island, a beautiful piece of land at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. But when Rita relates what happened to the people who lived there before, some family members react with understanding, others with arguments and anger. Rita's attempts to understand what happened and why leads her on a journey that requires facing the complicated legacy of westward expansion in the U.S. Along the way she meets Ramona, a Dakota educator. What Ramona's ancestors experienced because of U.S. government policies puts faces and names on this story. Rita listens and learns. She wants to find a way to put something right. We learn the value of finding and facing the past by watching her journey.

Participant:

Participants: Ramona Kitto Stately, Reuben Kitto Stately, Rita Davern.

Credits:

Cinematographers, Melody Gilbert, Miles Painter ; editor, Miles Painter.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Distributed by Collective Eye.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).

OCLC:

1288335331

Publisher Number:

ce-storie Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.