The Long Hope

Elspeth Victoria Fitzgerald (Dir), 113 minutes, Onödowa'ga:' (Cattaraugus Seneca Nation) / Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk Nation Lands)/ USA, New York State Premiere

Director Elspeth Victoria Fitzgerald, Executive Producer John Kane, Executive Producer Holly John, Executive Producer Ross John, and Producer James H. Fitzgerald in attendance.

Told through the voices of Seneca and Mohawk activists, The Long Hope explores the slave-era origins of US legal theory and policy toward Native Peoples and the struggle of the Seneca and Mohawk Nations to retain their sovereignty in the face of continued aggression by federal and state governments. While the US Government no longer exterminates Native Peoples or steals their children for forced assimilation programs, it still exercises, or delegates to the states, absolute power over Native Peoples and Native Territories.