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Honor thy mother

Honor thy mother

DVD 2021

Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people, in the early 1940s. They came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers. Many, just released from the Indian Residential Schools, fell in love in the strawberry fields and married Filipino immigrants. Desp...

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Children of agricultural laborers Washington (State) Bainbridge Island
Indigenous women Washington (State) Bainbridge Island
Race discrimination United States History 20th century
Racially mixed families Washington (State) Bainbridge Island
Racially mixed people United States Social conditions
Suquamish Washington (State) Bainbridge Island
Women agricultural laborers Washington (State) Bainbridge Island Social conditions
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Description:
1 videodisc (31 minutes) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
4 3/4 in
polychrome monochrome
color black and white
burning
digital
NTSC
laser optical
video file
DVD video
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Other Title:
Subtitle on container: The Untold story of aboriginal women and their Indipino children
Notes:
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2021
Narrator, Gina Corpuz
DVD-R; NTSC; all regions; Dolby digital 2.0
In English; optional English subtitles. Closed-captioned in English
Control Number:
3188079
Other Authors:
Corpuz, Gina, narrator, screenwriter
Ostrander, Lucy, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Sellers, Don, director of photography, editor of moving image work
Stourwater Pictures, publisher
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