Reservation 2 Summer: Dog Days and Rodeo Nights - DVD

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This cinema verité series follows a year in the life of a First Nations reserve in the interior of British Columbia. Eleven intermarried families form the population of the 550 Shuswap at Alkali Lake. Struggling under the paternalistic system devised by the Canadian Government, they have never signed a treaty formalizing their existence and are forced to live like interlopers on their own land. Ill-equipped for the modern word, the reserve is both their prison and their sanctuary?and perhaps, the best hope for the preservation of their culture.

The filming follows 14 major characters, revealing the complexity of reserve life with its vast web of community, its contradictions, its nepotism, its feuds, its lingering malaise of long unspoken sexual abuse, but, ultimately, its deep well of spirituality.

Part 2.
Summer: Dog Days and Rodeo Nights
Arthur reads a letter to the Queen. Chief Andy rails over the stagnated treaty negotiations Arthur rallies the elders about the logging road. Phyllis and Ivy tour the ?crop circles? up on the meadow. The strange formations are talked about down at the health clinic. Megga arrives at the clinic with her son Mike, an advanced AIDS patient, to shoot a video that will be played at his future funeral. Ivy leaves to join her new love in Alaska. The fact that sexual abuse, present and past, has not been dealt with comes out at a workshop. A small group considers amounts of financial compensation for what happened at the residential schools. The federal negotiators for compensation arrive with an unwanted guest leading to an emotional confrontation. A girls ball hockey team have a practice and decide to enter a big expensive tournament. But the day of the tournament Joyce, the goalie shows up drunk. Debbie gets a massage from Norma on a painful area in her lower abdomen. Her son, Kirk, an aspiring professional hockey player, searches the Midway at the local Stampede for the blond girl of his dreams. The logging company joins the band for a ceremony about the egregious logging road. Compensation is asked for; a picnic table is promised.

52 minutes

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