Anyone who has attended any public events in Canada in recent years will likely be familiar with the practice of land acknowledgement: a solemn formal statement, recited before sports matches, film ...

A quarter of a century ago this Saturday, Quebecers awoke to a crisis. The Mohawk Crisis of 1990 was a summer-long stand-off between natives, police and armed forces and citizens in several ...

It’s no surprise that a filmmaker’s best work is often their most personal. The coming-of-age film, an over-saturated genre with more misfires than successes, works best when the creator not only ...

PORT ANGELES — The prize-winning film “Beans” will be shown at Peninsula College in honor of International Women’s Day beginning Thursday. “Beans” is the story of a young Mohawk girl who is torn ...

OKA, Que. - Twenty-five years after the beginning of the violent 78-day standoff between Quebec Mohawks and Canadian soldiers, the community of Kanesatake has not forgotten the Oka crisis or the ...

In Beans, now streaming on Hulu, a young Mohawk girl named Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed “Beans”) is forever changed after she lives through the events of the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake. Based on the ...

Canadian director Tracey Deer is set to receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award at this year’s TIFF Tribute Awards, while also bringing her debut feature, Beans, to Toronto as a world premiere. By Etan ...

Tracey Deer based “Beans” on her experiences as a child during the 1990 Oka crisis, a confrontation between the Mohawk people and the government. By Laurel Graeber Tracey Deer can still remember the ...

"If we want respect, we have to behave respectfully!" An official Canadian trailer has debuted for an indie film titled Beans, which originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year to ...

Docmaker Tracey Deer brings vivid personal experience to her first fiction feature, set against the tumultuous Oka Crisis land dispute in 1990. Anyone who has attended any public events in Canada in ...