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FINDING JOY
Joy’s fondest childhood memories are of sitting on her gramma’s lap learning to drum, to speak Mohawk, and to be a storyteller. When she lost her gramma and her connection to her Mohawks roots when she was eight, Joy used her stories to keep her gramma close to her heart. Years later, with a husband and triplets, Joy slowly gives up pieces of herself to take care of her family, including becoming her husband’s full-time caregiver as a mysterious illness overtakes his body. Shortly after his death, her daughters move away for school, and Joy finds herself with no one to take care of for the first time in almost two decades.
Lost and alone, Joy turns to television and social media to mask her pain. Following an intervention by her daughters, Joy slowly embarks on a journey of self-discovery to heal her heart and find her true self again.
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Take Her
Alone in the park near their house early one morning, a five-year-old girl pushes her little sister on a swing, as she often does when they go to the park by themselves. It’s a cool, crisp morning and the only sound aside from the youngest girl’s laughter is of the old swing chain creaking with each new push.
The heavy fog sits just above the ground and casts an eerie shadow throughout the park. The older girl wishes that for once her mother would have let her go to the park alone to enjoy the quiet morning by herself instead of always having to drag her little sister along with her.
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Where I Belong
This moving tale of self-discovery takes place during the Oka uprising in the summer of 1990. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning her that someone close to her in in danger.
When she discovers that her birth family is Mohawk living in Quebec, Carrie makes the long journey and finally achieves the sense of home and belonging that has always eluded her.
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I Like Who I Am
Celina is a young Mohawk girl who moves with her mother to her mother’s home reserve. She is teased by some of her classmates who tell her that she is not Mohawk and does not belong there because she has blond hair and blue eyes. Celina starts to believe her classmates and decides not to dance as she had planned at an upcoming Pow Wow. Her great-grandmother helps her understand that being Mohawk is not about how she looks, but about what she feels in her heart. When the drumming starts at the Pow Wow for the Iroquois Smoke Dance, Celina decides that she will dance after all, regardless of what her classmates think.
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