Quote:
"Alanis [Obomsawin] has been an activist all her life, not enamoured by expansive rhetoric but given to straight talk. Her disappointment with the slowness of the government to act on pious promises is legendary. Her example inspires the young, who are especially impatient to create a just society. This has been the task of all great poets in history. Alanis brings poetry to documentary film, where it is always belonged."
-- Robert Verrall

Source:
Verrall, Robert. "Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance." 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. 153)