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Film Screening: SAKSANICA

Experience the PBS documentary

 

Saksanica features interviews with six Dakota/Lakota women as they discuss the materials, hand craft, adornments and cultural heritage contained within traditional Dakota and Lakota women’s dresses.

 

Enjoy:

 

-  Music and Drumming, 

-  Discussion with award-winning filmmaker Leya Hale 

-  Food and Refreshments!

Saturday, April 9, 2022 

4:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Omníčiye Tipi Community Center

Sisseton Wahpeton College

Sisseton, South Dakota

This event is full. Sorry, we're no longer accepting registrations for this screening as we're over capacity.

Director & Producer Leya Hale is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She is a producer for Twin Cities PBS and is a recipient of the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous  artists. Hale is the producer of “Bring Her Home,” a documentary about the Missing and Murdered  Indigenous Women epidemic. When not producing feature films, Leya works on a variety of short form content in efforts to generate social change.

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