In the Wake of Our Ancestors
A film by Angela Watrous
Without truth, you will never be able to reconcile.
In the Wake of Our Ancestors (95 minutes) follows filmmaker Angela Watrous and her aging father on a cross-country reckoning with their family’s and their country’s 400-year history of settler-colonization—speaking directly with Native American descendants of those their ancestors harmed.
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This Thanksgiving, I need your help healing ancestral and cultural harms
[Pictured is Veronica E Tiller, Ph.D., historian of the Jicarilla Apache people. My great-great grandfather Samuel Bowman Watrous–of the now-named Watrous, New Mexico–strongly agitated in his later life for the forced relocation of her people.] This November, I have a special invitation for you and your loved ones. We’ve been making great strides in editing…
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