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All My Relations PodcastNative Children Belong in Native HomesBrooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) and Kendra Potter (Lummi) join All My Relations for “Native Children Belong in Native Homes.” This heartfelt, vulnerable and raw story is centered around their film, “Daughter of A Lost Bird”, which follows Kendra, an adult Native adoptee, as she reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity. Her singular story echoes many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Indian Adoption Project. ++++Special thanks to Santa Monica College and everyone there who made this possible, thank you to the AMR team...2023-03-0853 min
Free City RadioRadio Alhara راديو الحارة - Interview on the film Daughter of a Lost BirdAn interview with filmmaker Brooke Swaney and actor Kendra Mylnechuk who speak about their respective work on the documentary film Daughter of a Lost Bird.
This is a write-up on the film from the Human Rights Watch film festival:
This beautifully personal film documents her journey as she discovers her Native identity—finding her birth mother, April, also a Native adoptee, and returning to her Lummi homelands in Washington State. In Daughter of a Lost Bird, Kendra and April’s stories show the impact of intentional government actions to erase an entire culture, including the 1958 Indian Adoption Project, which removed Nati...2023-03-0330 min
reelprintSense of Belonging with Brooke Pepion Swaney and Kendra Mylnechuk PotterIn this episode, director Brooke Pepion Swaney and producer/actor Kendra Mylnechuk Potter discuss the theme of sense of belonging and their friendship during the making of OK BREATHE AURALEE and DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD. Finally, in today’s concluding thought, Edward discusses his involvement in the film industry.
Guest Bios:
Brooke P. Swaney (she/her, Blackfeet/Salish) was selected to participate as a NATIVe Fellow at the 2019 European Film Market/Berlinale. She is also a 2014 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellow and a 2013 Time Warner Fellow through the Sundance Institute. OK BREATHE AURALEE, her...2022-04-291h 07
Woman's HourBarbara Lisicki & Ruth Madeley, US basketball player Brittney Griner, Red Nose Day, Inclusive Britain, Native children in the USBrittney Griner is 6 foot 9. She's an American basketball player, some say she's the greatest female basketball player of all time and she is currently being detained in Russia on drug charges that could carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Overnight Russian courts have extended her detention for two more months. All this while tensions between Russia and the States remain tense and her family worry she may be used as a political pawn. Molly McElwee, the Telegraph's Women's Sports reporter explains.To mark Red Nose Day Ena Miller visits a Comic Relief supported project...2022-03-1856 min
Faux Reel PodcastDaughter of a Lost Bird with Brooke SwaneyOn this episode Dawn talks with documentary filmmaker Brooke Swaney for her newest film DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD. The film follows adoptee Kendra as she discovers her Native culture that she didn't grow up with, is welcomed in, meets her birth mother and other blood relatives, and learns more about how her story fits in with the bigger picture of ICWA, boarding schools and assimilation practices forced upon Indigenous people. Dawn and Brooke talk about making a film from an emotional place of empathy, share stories of their own Native backgrounds, and discuss the importance of representation in...2021-08-3033 min