My Own Private Lower Post

Film Maker
Duane Gastant’ Aucoin
Year
2008
Country
Canada
Language
Format
Digital
Length
32
Genre
documentary, queer
Category
Families, history, Indigenous, LGBTQ, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Two-Spirit

“My Own Private Lower Post” is the story of Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, a two-spirited Tlingit, as he seeks to understand how his mother’s trials at Lower Post Resident School have influenced his life. As she shares her story, he comes to understand how he too is a survivor. Haa Koosteeyi (Our Tlingit Way) is where mother and son find the strength to overcome and truly survive. “My Own Private Lower Post” won an Honourary Mention (runner-up) for best BC Short at the 2009 Vancouver Queer Film Festival. This groundbreaking video has been called “enjoyable, emotional and historic” (Whitehorse Star review). English and Tlingit with English subtitles

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