My Name Is Kahentiiosta

• Movies
• 1995-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 0h 30m
• CA
• Documentary

• 8.0
• 1

Production

ONF | NFB

Storyline

This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day armed standoff in 1990. She was detained 4 days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec government did not accept her indigenous name.