It is ironic just before Canada Day to find myself staring at the front page of the Vancouver Sun and reading the article about police taking down my first nations colleagues on Burrard Bridge. I can completely understand the position, my colleagues took to assert our political position in Canada. I begin a project 15 years ago to create a politically charged film now titled "7 Fires 4 U...Kitchi Manitou. The film utilizes the 1990 Oka crisis as the starting point to examines the dichotomy between societal surveillance and indigenous resistance in an age of Terror, which began for us 513 years ago.
I wanted to paint a picture where two characters affected by the Oka crisis begin their journey in promoting indigenous resistance , and any means to fight the racism, the terrorization of aboriginal people, and to stand up against the media propaganda utilized to devalue our people on the Canandian landscape. So it is no surprise to still see the propaganda utilized by Canada's police to undermine the political actions of Canada's first people. In this Age of Terror, I have utilized my experience to expose the propaganda that is use to contain the indigenous sovereignty of our native people. For the SUN to utilize an image which has nothing to do with the actual taken down of the native people on the Burrard bridge, but instead uses a file picture to paints us as terrorists and thugs, shows what the police, INSET, and media appartusses will do to manufacturing consent in criminalizing our political actions. Shame on Canada.
This commentary does not represent the views of my current working relationship with Caravan Farm Theatre and the cast and crew of their new summer musical I.O. U. LAND. IOU LAND is about a Native Man (SAM WOLF) who is cheated out of his land in a card game by some Beefalo ranchers .
Respectfully,
Donald Morin, ba
residing at Suite 706. 27 west Pender Street,, Vancouver, BC, V6 2T2, but now at Caravan Farm theatre, Armstrong , BC donaldmorin@gmail.com, 1.778.881.2275 http://groups.msn.com/TheDonaldMorinWebSite
Below information taken from http://www.caravanfarmtheatre.com/season.html
THE I.O.U.LAND
A NEW WESTERN MUSICAL BY LINZ KENYON
LAND AND FAMILY…
Rodeo champion Sam Wolf loses his land in a game of poker…
His lawyer son Billy is supposed to win it back…
Like a chuckwagon wreck at the Calgary Stampede, everything goes wrong…
STAR CROSSED LOVERS ON THE RUN, MURDER, BETRAYAL,
WILD RIDING COWGIRLS, ENCHANTED POKER GAMES, THE CUSTER LONGKNIFE,
A RING OF FIRE AND A SLEEP OF TWENTY YEARS
Enter Billy Junior, lucky at cards and wishing on stars…
FATHERS, DAUGHTERS, SONS AND LOVERS
WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR LAND? WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR FAMILY?
PART FAIRY TALE, PART HORSE OPERA, PART HONKY TONK COMEDY
ALL CANADIAN THEATRE
BASED ON RICHARD WAGNER’S RING CYCLE
DIRECTED BY ESTELLE SHOOK
MUSIC COMPOSED BY LINZ KENYON AND DOUG DODD
SET DESIGNED BY CATHERINE HAHN & HARRY VAN DER SCHEE
COSTUMES DESIGNED BY MARINA SZIJARTO
LIGHTS DESIGNED BY GERALD KING
[Featuring Donald Morin, Ryan Cunningham, Michelle Latimer, Kerriann Cardinal, Courtnenay Stevens
Darren Hynes, and Musicians, Darby Watters, Gillian Cran, and Kim White.]
JULY 19 TO AUGUST 21, 7:30 PM NIGHTLY RAIN OR SHINE, SHow completed August 23rd. Next year 2006 MacBeth is posted
