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First Voices Radio

Thu, Jan 25, 2018   9:00 AM

TUPAC HUEHUECOYOTL AND ELLE-MáIJá TAILFEATHERS

On this edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Tupac Huehuecoyotl. Tupac represents the Continental Commission Abya Yala. Tupac, who recently returned from a trip to South America, will share his insights into the Pope’s recent visit there. In the second half-hour, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi) is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On Monday, January 22, at the Sundance Film Festival – which is going on through January 28 in Park City, Utah - she was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship—an annual fellowship named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker Merata Mita. Elle-Máijá is a filmmaker, writer and actor. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia in First Nations and Indigenous Studies with a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her award-winning works are often community-focused and rooted in social justice. She has numerous, prestigious filmmaking awards and a Canadian Screen Award for her performance in “On the Farm.” Elle-Máijá is currently directing a feature-length documentary about the opiate crisis and addiction in her home community of Kainai First Nation (Blood Reserve). She is also in pre-production on a narrative-feature, which she is co-writing and co-directing with Kathleen Hepburn.

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