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"For more than five decades, Alanis has asserted an uncompromising, fierce, and unprecedented cinematic space for Indigenous perspectives, faces, and places. Her films have elevated our histories, our struggles, and our aspirations, and in so doing have given us strength. She does this not just out of a quest for what is right and good but out of love for her people— and not only for those who are alive today, but also for those who have passed on and for those not yet born. Alanis is a living embodiment of the truth that colonization has not beaten us, that the genocide against Indigenous children did not eradicate our cultures, and that the hopes and dreams of Indigenous people can and will be realized."
-- Jason Ryle

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Ryle, Jason. "The People Of The Kattawapiskak River, Hi-Ho Mistahey!, Trick Or Treaty?, We Can't Make The Same Mistake Twice, Our People Will Be Healed, Walking Is Medicine, Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger." In Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework, edited by Richard William Hill and Hila Peleg. Munich: Prestel, 2022. 'This book accompanies the exhibition The Children Have to Hear Another Story—Alanis Obomsawin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 23-April 18, 2022; Vancouver Art Gallery, Spring 2023; Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Summer 2023'. [exhibition catalogue] (p. 232)