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1 online resource (1 video file (31 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
| Summary |
"Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people, in the early 1940s. They came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers. Many, just released from the Indian Residential Schools, fell in love in the strawberry fields and married Filipino immigrants. Despite having left their homeland and possible disenfranchisement from their tribes, they settled on the Island to raise their mixed heritage (Indipino) children. The voices of the Indipino children, now elders, are integral in the storytelling of their mother's experiences marrying Asian men and settling in a distant land. They share their confusion of growing up with no sense of belonging in either culture and raised in poverty as the children of berry farmers, some with no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing. In a post-World War II racist environment, they grew up in homes burdened with their father and mother's memory of the 227 Bainbridge Island Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes after President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19th, 1942. Brought to light, in the oral history interviews of the Indipino elders, is the effect that historical trauma has on children, more specifically children whose mothers survived Indian Residential Schools" Stourwater Pictures website |
| Notes |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2021 |
| Credits |
Director of photography and editor, Don Sellers |
| Performer |
Narrated by Gina Corpuz |
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Closed-captioned in English |
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Local Sightings Film Festival, Official Selection, 2021; Social Justice Film Festival, Official Selection; West Sound Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary, 2021 |
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West Sound Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary, 2021; Social Justice Film Festival, 2021 Indigenous Futures Award |
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Description from online resource; title from screen (Resource digitized from USB drive from Stourwater Pictures, viewed on November 1, 2022) |
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Indian women -- North America.
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Suquamish Indians -- Washington (State) -- Bainbridge Island
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Women agricultural laborers -- United States -- Social conditions
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Women agricultural laborers -- Washington (State) -- Bainbridge Island
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Children of agricultural laborers -- Washington (State) -- Bainbridge Island
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Racially mixed families -- Washington (State) -- Bainbridge Island
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions
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Generational trauma -- United States
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Suquamish Indians
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Racially mixed families
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Women agricultural laborers
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Social conditions
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Racially mixed people -- Social conditions
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Generational trauma
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Children of agricultural laborers
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Indian women
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Race discrimination
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Women agricultural laborers -- Social conditions
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Bainbridge Island (Wash.) -- Social conditions
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North America
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United States
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Washington (State) -- Bainbridge Island
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documentary film.
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Short films
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Biographical films
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Documentary films
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History
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films.
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Biographical films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Short films.
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Documentaires.
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Films biographiques.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Courts métrages.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Sellers, Don, director of photography, film editor.
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Ostrander, Lucy, screenwriter, film director, film producer.
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Corpuz, Gina, screenwriter, narrator
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Stourwater Pictures, production company, distributor.
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