KANENON:WE (ORIGINAL SEEDS, 2024) Featuring presentation by Dr. Rebecca Webster

KANENON:WE (ORIGINAL SEEDS)

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Block Cinema welcomes Evanston's Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum for a screening of Katsitsionni Fox’s film KANENON:WE - ORIGINAL SEEDS and a presentation by one of the film’s featured seedkeepers, Dr. Rebecca Webster. 

KANENON:WE - ORIGINAL SEEDS features three Haudenosaunee women: Angela Ferguson, Rebecca Webster and Rowen White, who are stepping back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers. Today, Indigenous seed keepers are vigilantly protecting the biodiversity of seeds under threat of Agro-Chemical Giants that currently control over sixty percent of seeds worldwide. They honor the work of our ancestors by regenerating, rematriating and protecting sacred seeds offering a powerful view of what is possible in Indigenous communities working towards food sovereignty.

Schedule of Events:

6:00pm: Film starts

6:30pm-7:30pm: Talk with Becky Webster, Special guest from the film & Haudenosaunee seedkeeper

Dr. Rebecca Webster, an Oneida Nation citizen, is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her research focuses on tribal governance and food sovereignty, viewing Indigenous farming as an act of resistance and self-determination. She farms on her homestead, sharing practices via her YouTube channel, “Ukwakhwa (Our Foods),” and through the non-profit Ukwakhwa, Inc. She’s also a founding member of two Oneida farming cooperatives focused on heirloom crops.

“We recognized how fragile our food system is. This is about empowering our people to be able to reclaim the processing and growing of our Indigenous foods.” — Rebecca Webster, Kanenon:we – Original Seeds