An Evening with LOUIE GONG. Join us for the short documentary EAGLE VISION: TAKING NATIVE BUSINESS TO NEW HEIGHTS, the story of how Louie Gong (Nooksack) launched Eighth Generation, a Native-owned business that rejected the notion of “Native Inspired” and created a company to showcase and support “Inspired Natives.” Louie will be with us in person to talk about the next chapter of his story – selling Eighth Generation to the Snoqualmie Tribe. (2019, 13 min.).

Preceded by TENTSITESAHKWE, director Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk). As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Journey with Jessica across all four seasons and multiple native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers, returning to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. (The Reciprocity Project, 2024, 17 min.).

FREE and open to the public. No RSVP required. First come, first seater. In the DMNS Ricketson Theater (West Entrance).