Indigenous filmmaker Tsanavi Spoonhunter joins us for a screening of her film Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty (2020), about food sovereignty on the Crow Reservation, followed by a roundtable discussion of her work with CU Boulder Ethnic Studies Professors Clint Carroll and Angelica Lawson, moderated by WGST Professor Leila Gómez. This event is free to attend and open to the public. 

Sponsored by RIO Seed Grant Project “Global Indigeneity and Land Struggle: Documentary Film for Sustainable Futures”, the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University Libraries, and CNAIS.

Film Description:

On the Crow Reservation, where food sources are already scarce, the one affordable grocery store has burned down and tribal members are restricted from their traditional hunting grounds. Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty follows several tribal members who are fighting for better food and a better future for their community.

About the Director:

Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute nonfiction film director, producer and writer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with a documentary film concentration. Spoonhunter is a 2022-2024 Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow and Woodstock Film Festival resident.

Indigenous filmmaker Tsanavi Spoonhunter joins us for a screening of her film Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty (2020), about food sovereignty on the Crow Reservation, followed by a roundtable discussion of her work with CU Boulder Ethnic Studies Professors Clint Carroll and Angelica Lawson, moderated by WGST Professor Leila Gómez. This event is free to attend and open to the public. 

Sponsored by RIO Seed Grant Project “Global Indigeneity and Land Struggle: Documentary Film for Sustainable Futures”, the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University Libraries, and CNAIS.

Film Description:

On the Crow Reservation, where food sources are already scarce, the one affordable grocery store has burned down and tribal members are restricted from their traditional hunting grounds. Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty follows several tribal members who are fighting for better food and a better future for their community.

About the Director:

Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute nonfiction film director, producer and writer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with a documentary film concentration. Spoonhunter is a 2022-2024 Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow and Woodstock Film Festival resident.