{"id":2059,"date":"2010-03-26T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:02:37","slug":"caledonia-documentary-headlined-the-niagara-social-justice-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/caledonia-documentary-headlined-the-niagara-social-justice-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Caledonia documentary headlined the Niagara Social Justice Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sara Roque<\/p><\/div>\n

With the Caledonia land claim stand-off, Aboriginal women took their traditional place as community leaders, and it\u2019s a story that\u2019s inspiring to women everywhere.<\/p>\n

That was the message delivered by Toronto filmmaker Sara Roque last week as she gave the plenary presentation at the Niagara Social Justice Forum at Brock.<\/p>\n

With her documentary Six Miles Deep<\/em>, Roque told a 42-minute story about the clan mothers of Six Nations taking a deciding role in the demonstration at Caledonia. In 2006, Six Nations members stopped a housing development on land subject to a federal land claim. The claim has not been resolved.<\/p>\n

Roque’s film depicts the clan mothers \u2014 a traditional source of power in the Haudenosaunee nation \u2014 leading a cultural awakening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really found the women in the film inspiring,\u201d said Roque, who is Metis and Aboriginal Arts Officer with the Ontario Arts Council, in an interview last week. \u201cThey inspired me to be curious, and to continue the work that we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six Miles Deep<\/em>, a point-of-view documentary, was presented for forum attendees on March 20. Roque said one reason she focused on the women was because \u201cwe live in an extremely patriarchal society, and when you look at society as a whole, Aboriginal woman are kind of invisible to mainstream society.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 200 people attended the fourth annual forum. Other workshops included:<\/p>\n