Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii Reflection
This film showed a large range of emotions from the people of Haida Gwaii as the film takes you through the discovery of the remains of their ancestors to the journey they go on to bring the remains home. The part that affected me the most was when the filmmaker used raw footage to display the Haida people teaching their traditional dances to the people of the Chicago museum as a way to say thanks. It fascinated me that the people of the museum were so sympathetic to the Haida people that their ancestral remains were taken away from them, and needed to be brought home for proper burial. The Haida were doing a hand motion of palms open to the sky and moving them up and down, in their culture this a way of saying thanks.
All the work that the Haida people did in order to bring their ancestors home was mind blowing, all the fundraising and making of traditional bent wood boxes. This just showed how much passion and feeling they had to achieve their common goal, and how much this means to them. It was also interesting to me, to find out that there was so much that goes into the proper burial of the Haida.
-Marlee <3
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