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Owihwagayonh or (Going Back to the Old Ways)
2005, 16mm

Owihwagayonh or (Going Back to the Old Ways) is a film about my struggle with being raised in the Catholic Church a tactic of the assimilation policy of the United States Government against Native Americans. It represents my revelation of Our (Native Americans) collective past; to the traditional ways of the collective Native American culture; my disowning of the Church and its teachings; and my return to the Old Ways or the traditional spiritual ways. Throughout the film there is quite a bit of symbolism embedded within. It was shot on 16mm black & white and color film stocks and transferred off a Steenbeck flatbed editor onto digital video format.

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