https://www.groundworksfilm.com/home daily 1.0 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1655821673420-F8FNWAJIMPP2KVCBQ1FZ/11+Alcatraz+Perf+-+Bern+Dancing.jpeg Home - About the Film Read about Groundworks and meet the artists behind the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1655821724160-AXMTG2H1TE5EM5BA6JCV/8+Kanyon+Lands+End+Steps.jpeg Home - Watch Groundworks Stream now on PBS Passport https://www.groundworksfilm.com/aboutgroundworks daily 0.75 2022-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1644431263312-VYRXWTT2RJDI7OONTTXI/2018-10-04+11.09.09.jpg About Groundworks - About GROUNDWORKS Groundworks profiles four of the California Native co-creators of the “Groundworks” project—a performance on Alcatraz Island on San Francisco’s first official Indigenous People’s Day in October 2018. While weaving together these artists’ stories and their contemporary ways of sharing traditional knowledge, the Groundworks documentary considers issues of land management, water rights, and food security—concerns for all Americans, especially in an age of climate change. We travel from traditional acorn gathering spots to the studios where the “Groundworks” performance was rehearsed before being shared after dawn, 50 years after the Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz. This documentary brings the audience into the lives of the collaborators as they face pressing issues as Native Californians. By exploring their creative practices and connections to their communities, this project highlights these Indigenous artists’ contemporary relationships to traditional territories of Pomo, Ohlone, Onatsatis, and neighboring communities and their efforts to “re-story” the land through creative reclamation. An important component of decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty is revealing the hidden, overlapping histories of place through art, performance, and story. Profiled in the documentary are musician Ras K'Dee, Pomo, with ties to multiple bands in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties; Bernadette Smith, singer and dancer from the Manchester Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians; Kanyon Sayers-Roods, a multidisciplinary Ohlone artist from Indian Canyon, a sovereign Indian Nation outside of Hollister, California; and L. Frank, a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and language advocate. These artists, through their practices and activism, bring attention to contemporary Indigenous life in California. 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Frank L. Frank is a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and Indigenous language activist. She is an important keeper of knowledge related to Indigenous craft, building techniques, traditional foods, agriculture, and land management. In addition to activism to reclaim language, L. Frank has led the building of Tongva canoes through traditional means. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1655823233375-OHJ599POM1577LA3605X/22+Bernadette+Costume.jpeg Groundworks Artists - Bernadette Smith Bernadette Smith is a Pomo singer, musician, and playwright from the Point Arena Manchester Band of Pomo Indians. She is an activist leader involved with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and brought her whole family to Standing Rock to protect water rights. She is currently working on reclaiming land traditionally used by her tribe for their acorn harvest, and on protecting the source of those acorns—the tanoak—from hack-and-squirt clearing to make way for managed redwoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1656092978358-ACRRHEZ73EMMWUFMGHTH/3+Kanyon+Fire+Event+1.jpeg Groundworks Artists - Kanyon Sayers-Roods Kanyon Sayers-Roods is a multidisciplinary Ohlone artist from Indian Canyon, a sovereign Indian Nation nestled into a canyon outside of Hollister which provides ceremonial ground for tribes without reservations and diverse Indigenous peoples. She is working to maintain and expand these lands and water access as more and more of the surrounding area is converted to vineyards; work started by her mother and a flock of pygmy goats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dcaa9da377fa2fd88cc2a1/1655822958010-HA1D5BXZ4UN11Y5B8JNC/24+Ras+Costume.jpeg Groundworks Artists - Ras K’Dee Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. 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