{"id":9777,"date":"2023-03-21T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/reflection-on-the-the-film-nipawostamasowin-we-will-stand-up-by-tasha-hubbard\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T03:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:23:02","slug":"reflection-on-the-the-film-nipawostamasowin-we-will-stand-up-by-tasha-hubbard","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/reflection-on-the-the-film-nipawostamasowin-we-will-stand-up-by-tasha-hubbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on the the film n\u00eepawostam\u00e2sowin: We Will Stand Up by Tasha Hubbard"},"content":{"rendered":"
Link for the film if needed: <\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up\/.\n<\/div>\n
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Length: 500-600 words. (If you go slightly over the word count, that is acceptable as long as the\n<\/div>\n
information is pertinent to the assignment.)\n<\/div>\n
Format: Word Document or Google Doc\n<\/div>\n
Double-spaced,\n<\/div>\n
Font: size 12, Times New Roman or Arial.\n<\/div>\n
MLA for quotations.\n<\/div>\n
Follow essay standards of writing.\n<\/div>\n
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As you are watching the film n\u00eepawostam\u00e2sowin: We Will Stand Up by Tasha Hubbard, I want\n<\/div>\n
you to reflect on the intention, message, and importance of the film. Below you can find a few\n<\/div>\n
options for guiding questions you can use for your written assignment. Please select one of
\n<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
these questions to answer<\/u><\/b> and use as a guide for your first written assignment.\n<\/div>\n
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1. What is the history of colonialism in Canada depicted in this documentary? Through\n<\/div>\n
Hubbard\u2019s documentary, what are the lingering effects of colonialism still experienced to\n<\/div>\n
this day? Is Colten Boushie\u2019s death a result of this troubled history? How so?\n<\/div>\n
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2. In the film we see mentions of the Indian Act, a Canadian parliament act established in\n<\/div>\n
1876, and its repercussions to Indigenous populations in Canada. According to\n<\/div>\n
Hubbard\u2019s film, what did the Indian Act do? Thinking back on the work of Emily Carr and\n<\/div>\n
her depictions of Indigenous traditions in Western Canada as a settler, living through the\n<\/div>\n
Indian Act, what can you mention about how Carr can depict Indigenous practices and\n<\/div>\n
artworks in a time where Indigenous peoples were forbidden to practice ceremony?\n<\/div>\n
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3. Two Part question: Historical Context of Colonialism, depicted in n\u00eepawostam\u00e2sowin: We\n<\/div>\n
Will Stand Up:\n<\/div>\n
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a. Part 1:\n<\/div>\n
i. What were Indigenous people promised in the Treaties?\n<\/div>\n
ii. What would settlers be given in return?\n<\/div>\n
iii. Why did Poundmaker and Big Bear join the Riel Resistance?\n<\/div>\n
iv. How did the resistance end?\n<\/div>\n
v. What has been the impact of broken treaty promises on Indigenous\n<\/div>\n
people?\n<\/div>\n
b. Part 2: How do we still see the effects of these specific colonial actions enacted\n<\/div>\n
in the region of Saskatchewan where the film takes place?\n<\/div>\n
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4. The film explores the many ways that settlers benefited from Treaties and colonial\n<\/div>\n
policies when they arrived in Canada. Through these benefits, Indigenous lands were\n<\/div>\n
confiscated and given to settlers for free or for a small fee. How would the tragic death of\n<\/div>\n
Colten Boushie confirm settler fears of Indigenous people reclaiming land? What are\n<\/div>\n
your views on the complexities of an Indigenous person being murdered on\n<\/div>\n
settler-owned land taken away from their ancestors?\n<\/div>\n
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5. Going back to Redefining [Art] History by Marc Mayer, why, as people living in Canada,\n<\/div>\n
is it important we watch Tasha Hubbard\u2019s film? How does her film fit into the cannon of\n<\/div>\n
Canadian art history? Based on Tasha Hubbard\u2019s conversation in the Q&A we attended,\n<\/div>\n
why was it important for her to create this film, as both an Indigenous woman and mother\n<\/div>\n
to an Indigenous teenager? Why should films exploring the legacy of colonialism and\n<\/div>\n
Canada\u2019s violent history be taught in Canadian schools?\n<\/div>\n
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6. At the end of the film we see Colten\u2019s sister Jade Tootoosis, Colten\u2019s mother Debbie\n<\/div>\n
Baptiste, and various council members speak to members of the Liberal and\n<\/div>\n
Conservative parties in Parliament, however no solid action comes from this interaction.\n<\/div>\n
Inaction speaks loudly. What does this say about Canada\u2019s role in maintaining a\n<\/div>\n
settler-colonial state? How has Canada\u2019s historical enforcement of colonialism and its\n<\/div>\n
continuation of it affect all of us to this day? How does Gerald Stanley\u2019s acquittal point to\n<\/div>\n
the failures in the Canadian justice system and how this system is in place t benefit white\n<\/div>\n
Canadians?\n<\/div>\n
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7. When the police came to inform Debbie Baptiste of her son\u2019s death they asked her if she\n<\/div>\n
had been drinking. When there were talks with rural farmers concerned for their safety,\n<\/div>\n
following the murder of Colten Boushie, many focused on talking if the kids that were\n<\/div>\n
caught trespassing had been drinking or not, rather than on the death that occurred.\n<\/div>\n
How do these narratives promote harmful anti-Indigenous stereotypes? How do these\n<\/div>\n
stereotypes promote a dehumanization that allowed this case to be treated more as a\n<\/div>\n
theft than as a murder?\n<\/div>\n
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8. Question for settlers: What are our roles and responsibilities as non-Indigenous people\n<\/div>\n
living in a settler colonial context? What was significant about the conversation Tasha\n<\/div>\n
Hubbard had with her grandfather at the end of the film, when speaking about the death\n<\/div>\n
of Colten Boushie? Thinking about Hubbard’s reflection on this conversation in the Q&A,\n<\/div>\n
how can conversation and awareness function as a tool to better educate our family\n<\/div>\n
members on colonialism\u2019s lasting legacy and Canada\u2019s role in the violence against\n<\/div>\n
Indigenous people?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link for the film if needed:  https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up\/. Length: 500-600 words. (If you go slightly over the word count, that is acceptable as long as the information is pertinent to the assignment.) Format: Word Document or Google Doc Double-spaced, Font: size 12, Times New Roman or Arial. MLA for quotations. Follow essay standards of writing. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[661],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}