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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (2025)

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising poster
Directed by
Shane Belcourt
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a group of Indigenous activists from the 1970s. They took over a park in Ontario to fight for their rights and sparked a larger movement across Canada and into the United States.

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What happens

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Shane Belcourt and released in 2025. The film recounts the story of an activist group who occupied Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario, for 38 days in 1974 to protest the legal and social state of First Nations in Canada, spawning a further wave of indigenous activism that included a protest on Parliament Hill and influencing the American Indian Movement in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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