Filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin, 90, has a sprawling new Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit, shaped by a lifetime of contending with racist violence at the hands of white classmates and an insulting school curriculum. Dorothy Woodend reviews. 

Dorothy is The Tyee's culture editor.

Published Friday, April 21, 2023. 

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/04/21/Speaking-For-Ourselves/

Filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin, 90, has a sprawling new Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit, shaped by a lifetime of contending with racist violence at the hands of white classmates and an insulting school curriculum. Dorothy Woodend reviews. Dorothy is The Tyee's culture editor. Published Friday, April 21, 2023. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/04/21/Speaking-For-Ourselves/

Speaking for Ourselves

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