Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
Reciprocity Project: Season 1 is a series of seven original short films made by Indigenous directors on their homelands. The films are about reciprocity to inspire conversation on climate, providing insights about how communities have thrived based on mutual actions since time immemorial.
Reciprocity Project season one centers knowledge and cultural learnings from Indigenous communities across Turtle Island in the U.S. and Colombia. The Reciprocity Project season one features films by Indigenous creators who are Gwich'in, Cherokee, Wayuu Iipuana, Passamaquoddy, Shinnecock, and Kanaka Maoli.
This free viewing will be followed by a live conversation and Q&A with Reciprocity Project filmmakers and community partners Brianna Smith (Passamaquoddy), Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), Malia Akutagawa (Kanaka Maoli), Alisha Carlson (Gwich’in), and Lauren Stevens (Passamaquoddy) and Reciprocity Project series producer Adam Mazo.
Reciprocity Project is a collaboration between Nia Tero and Boston-based Upstander Project in association with REI Co-op Studios.
About the Films:
- In Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa (We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors) by Princess Daazhraii Johnson and Alisha Carlson (Gwich’in), a grandfather teaches his granddaughter how the Gwich’in people take care of caribou and vice versa.
- ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) by Brit Hensel and Keli Gonzales (Cherokee Nation) explores Cherokee ways of being and knowing through a story told by Thomas Belt, a Cherokee elder and first language speaker. ᎤᏕᏲᏅ was recently nominated for The IDA Documentary Awards, the world's most prestigious event dedicated to the documentary genre.
- SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) by David Hernandez Palmar and Flor Palmar (Wayuu Iipuana) shows a wise Wayuu woman teaching her grandchildren the importance of reciprocity within their culture.
- Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come) by Geo Neptune and Brianna Smith (Passamaquoddy) Peskotomuhkati young people lead an intergenerational process of healing through the reclamation of athasikuwi-pisun, "tattoo medicine.”
- Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn), co-directed by a collective of directors, shares the song and stories of the Waponahkik (the people of the dawn land) as they bring gratitude to the sun where it first looks their way, accompanied by Yo Yo Ma.
- Ma’s House by Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock) shares his quest to restore the family home to its central role as a community gathering place for a new generation of diverse artists.
- Pili Ka Moʻo by Justyn Ah Chong and Malia Akutagawa (Kanaka Maoli) follows a family of native Hawaiian taro farmers in their efforts to preserve their ancestral land from the encroachment of corporate entities.
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