While attending the boarding school, young Saul endures and witnesses traumas that were, until then, unimaginable to him. In this segment of Area Voices, Melissa Townsend, reporter and producer for Minnesota Native News and Simone Senogles from Ogimaakwewiwin discuss native women in the media and the importance of native women sharing their stories.
Ajuawak Kapashesit Hank Crow Eyes.
Directed by Allan Hopkins. His He’s kind of a quieter fella, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have anything substantive going on…I oftentimes find that people who are oftentimes the quietest, who are usually neglected or not paid much attention to, are the ones who have something really interesting to say.” – Ajuawak Kapashesit “The stories of the Bongas, all of them, are so compelling and they’re so intertwined with early Minnesota history…at nearly every treaty that was made with both the Ojibwe and the Dakota, a Bonga served as an interpreter….My book, I think, is going to rock Minnesota history a little bit, well, maybe more than a just a little bit. Ajuawak Kapashesit; Member of ACTRA -- View his headshots, reels, and professional resume. Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck and Ajuawak Kapashesit take turns to portray Saul Indian Horse as he grows up in a Canadian-Indian residential school in the 1970s, isolated from his tribe and Ojibwe heritage.
With Ajuawak Kapashesit, Paul C. Grenier, Rob McEachern, Jordyn White.
The first one was how incredibly misrepresented the native experience had been in our historical narrative. Since then, he has written, directed, and starred in a number of productions both on-screen and onstage. Hockey becomes his survival mechanism. “Saul is a very interesting person. Sign up for the free, Indian Horse newsletter to stay up to date on the film’s progress; we’ll share information about premieres and upcoming events, the actors and producers of the film, as well as information about Residential Schools and the Reconciliation movements in Canada. Though his athletic abilities lead him to playing professionally, Saul is unable to process the ghosts of his past. The film adaptation of the Richard Wagamese novel, opened in Canada in 2017.
He's both Anishinaabe and Cree and he stars in the movie Indian Horse. He also appears as the lead in the adaptation of based on the book by late author Richard Wagamese.Outside of acting, Ajuawak is a trained linguist who focuses on language revitalization and documentation. - Simone SenoglesOgimaakwewiwin hosts We Speak for Ourselves: Gigaagiigidotamaadizomin tonight at 5pm at the Rail River Folk School in Bemidji.
When two unruly Native con-artists are forced to drive a cranky elder across the reserve so she can make peace with long estranged and dying sister, it quickly becomes clear that a supernatural force is trying to halt the journey.
And secondly, that the Native Americans had so much to teach us all about the way to live, basic values that are inherent in native culture... the valuation of the elders, the larger understanding of family, the belief that there is a spiritual dimension to life that has to be acknowledged at all points, and it just goes on and on...I loved my time on Red Lake...Even though there’s not a lot of data out in the main stream, I can’t think of any native family that I know that isn’t touched by this, and knows about it intimately.
” – Barry Babcock"....I really came to discover two things. A relative newcomer to the world of acting, Ajuawak Kapashesit has been performing in film, television and theatre since the fall of 2015. He’s one of these people I’ve come across many times in my life.
Kapashesit died unexpectedly on April 25 in Minneapolis, leaving a loving companion, Donna Ashamock; two biological children, Waseyabin LaDuke Kapashesit and Ajuawak Kapashesit, both residents of the White Earth reservation of Minnesota; and a grandson, Giiwedin Buckanaga. Native American women are often under-represented and mis-represented in the media. AJUAWAK KAPASHESIT ADULT SAUL. BOX 19626, VANCOUVER, BC V5T 4E7
“… Having people that represent you on screen is a luxury that most native people never really get…It’s typically in the 1700s and 1800s in a nondescript tribe where a lot of the time we’re background characters, not the important focus of the story… Film has a great opportunity to create a lot of empathy… If you’re a non-native person coming to this film, you get into that reality of the historical context of why native people have been disenfranchised and what’s going on in those communities and how certain people’s trauma has manifested in certain ways…It’s very exciting to give people that opportunity to see the world from a different point of view.” – Ajuawak KapashesitSaul Indian Horse, an eight year old Ojibwe, is separated from the love of his family and relocated to a residential Catholic boarding school in Canada.
Indian Horse brings to light the dark history of North America when Indigenous children were torn from their families in an effort to “reprogram” them.