{"id":15519,"date":"2023-11-18T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2023-11-18T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T15:52:17","slug":"spaces-of-exception-genocide-of-indigenous-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/18\/spaces-of-exception-genocide-of-indigenous-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"“SPACES OF EXCEPTION” Genocide of Indigenous & Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Debra White Plume, Oglala Lakota, in the film, “We Love Being Lakota,” which evolved into the film, “Spaces of Exception.”<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

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By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 17, 2023<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nMONTREAL — The film\u00a0Spaces of Exception<\/i>\u00a0revealing the atrocities and genocide of Native people — Lakota, Navajo, and Mohawk — and of Palestinians — was shown in Montreal at McGill University. It is here at McGill that Mohawk Mothers have an ongoing court battle to search for graves of Native children at the hospital where the CIA conducted MK-Ultra torture experiments.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Among those who were involved in the series of films in the project were Debra White Plume and Olowan Sara Martinez, our Oglala Lakota friends of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, now in the Spirit World. Their bold stance as defenders of the water and people was manifest at the Red Warrior Camp at Standing Rock, during the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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At McGill University, the event<\/span>\u00a0included the co-editors of the book,\u00a0The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival,<\/i>\u00a0with Philippe Blouin and Kahentinehta Rotiskarewake.<\/span>\u00a0T<\/span>he film showing was given a small room by the university in an obvious attempt to limit the number attending.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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‘Spaces of Exception’ is the latest in a series of films, which began with ‘We Love Being Lakota.’<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Alex White Plume says that the ancient people, the Palestinians, and Native people have been oppressed in the same way. “They are committing genocide after genocide over there.”<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Debra White Plume says the connection goes beyond solidarity.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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“It is a spiritual connection.”<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Debra said that the genocide is rooted in the quest of the oppressors to separate the people, for occupation, and to take the minerals and the land — both in Palestine and on this continent.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, who co-edited\u00a0The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival<\/a>, directed the feature-length documentary film Spaces of Exception.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The filmmakers said, “Profiling the American Indian reservation alongside the Palestinian refugee camp, Spaces of Exception was filmed from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota as well as Lebanon and the West Bank. It is an attempt to understand the significance of the land\u2014its memory and divisions\u2014and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘Spaces of Exception’ Standing Rock, Oceti Sakowin Camp, water protectors resisting Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n


\nFilmmaker Matt Peterson said ‘Spaces of Exception’ includes the Dine’ battling relocation because of Peabody Coal at Black Mesa, the Mohawk Warrior Society and the people of Palestine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The film investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. It was shot over the course of three years in the West Bank and Lebanon, as well as in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota,” Peterson said.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Spaces of Exception film trailer\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>