COMMUNITY SCREENING
7:30PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7
ELDERS & TRADITIONAL PEOPLES GATHERING – TRENT UNIVERSITY
Be sure to register for the 49th Annual Elders & Traditional Peoples Gathering and take in a full weekend of events, speakers and celebrations. Following the Opening Ceremonies and address by water-rights advocate Autumn Peltier, we will be screening the stunning film Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again in Wenjack Theatre at Trent University.
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again | Directed by Lyana Patrick | Canada, 2025, 91min
Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam was built in the 1950s, it diverted 70 percent of the Nechako River into an artificial reservoir, severely impacting the lives of local Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations. What followed were decades of resistance, including legal actions against the Canadian federal and provincial governments and Rio Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of a global mining conglomerate.
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THIS EVENT IS A PART OF THE
49TH ANNUAL ELDERS & TRADITIONAL PEOPLES GATHERING
