What is Women Hold Up Half the Sky (2008) about?

A vivid portrait of the Abenaki people, such as a young artist determined to continue the tradition of birch-bark canoes to the damning legacy of the Indian Act. In English/French with English subtitles. Preceded by the short: “Gene Boy Came Home” (2007, Canada, 25 min.) Dir. Alanis Obomsawin. Eugene Benedict left the Odanak reserve in Canada at the age of 15 to find work in the United States, served time as a marine on the front lines in Vietnam, and at long last found his way home to Odanak. In English.

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What is Women Hold Up Half the Sky (2008) about?: A vivid portrait of the Abenaki people, such as a young artist determined to continue the tradition of birch-bark canoes to the damning legacy of the Indian Act. In English/French with English subtitles.
Preceded by the short: “Gene Boy Came Home” (2007, Canada, 25 min.) Dir. Alanis Obomsawin. Eugene Benedict left the Odanak reserve in Canada at the age of 15 to find work in the United States, served time as a marine on the front lines in Vietnam, and at long last found his way home to Odanak. In English.