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Film Credits
Funding Support::
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
WKKF Advised Fund at Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Dakkota Integrated Systems, LLC
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
Grand Traverse Resort & Casinos
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi
Andra Rush
Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Charitable Foundation
Central Michigan University
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Vision Maker Media
CPB

Interviewees::
Scott Badenoch
President, Badenoch, LLC

Levi Rickert
Internet Journalist & Editor, Native News Network Potawatomi

Lee Ruffino
Youth Advocate
Saginaw Chippewa Indian tribe

Frank Cloutier
Public Relations Director
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Clinton Pelcher Jr.
Cultural Representative
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe		 Dennis Kequom Sr.
Tribal Chairman
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Louanna Bruner
Tribal Council Treasurer
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Hunter Genia, LMSW, CAADC
Behavioral Health Administrator
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Demmie Hayes
Student, Mt. Pleasant High School
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Elizabeth Husbands
Community Organizer
Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion
Kevin Chamberlain
Former Tribal Chairman
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Jessica Rickert, DDS
Society of American Indian Dentists
Potawatomi

Judy Pamp
Assistant Director, Ziibiwing Center
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe		 Eric Bothwell, DDS, MPH, PhD
Public Health Consultant, Maryland
Indian Health Service, Retired

Bruce Hardwick
Firekeeper & Spiritual Leader
Ojibwa

Pat Hardwick
Director, Dale Thomas Center
President, 4-ALL, Inc.

Duanne Kinnart
Firekeeper
Ojibwa

Paul Lepine

Doug Didia
Graphic Designer, Badenoch, LLC

George Martin,
Head Veteran Dancer
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe

Cindy M. Gere

Bunky Echo-Hawk
Artist, Design Consultant
Pawnee/Yakama

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Chief Oren Lyons
“I do not see a delegation for the Four-Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget, and we consider ourselves superior. But we are, after all, a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.”
Chief White Eagle
“Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage.”
Chief Maquinna
“Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. We are Indians, and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank.”
Chief Luther Standing Bear
"Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them… The animals had rights – the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with the joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.”