tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post4557710723834359288..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Documentary about Brooklyn's MohawksRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-12794940128382927182011-02-14T16:21:08.784-08:002011-02-14T16:21:08.784-08:00For more on the subject, see:
http://indiancountr...For more on the subject, see:<br /><br />http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/02/documentary-traces-brooklyns-mohawk-ironworkers/<br /><br /><b>Documentary Traces Brooklyn’s Mohawk Ironworkers</b><br /><br />Reaghan Tarbell never set out to be a New Yorker, or a filmmaker, for that matter.<br /><br />But eight years ago, this descendant of Mohawk ironworkers moved to New York from the Kahnawake Reserve near Montreal. She came to work in the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. In the city, she found she had questions she’d never asked about the sojourns of her grandparents in a Brooklyn neighborhood called Little Caughnawaga.<br /><br />Little Caughnawaga, as Tarbell explained in her 2008 documentary, <i>To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey</i>, was a small neighborhood that was home in the 1950s to as many as 700 Mohawks, making it the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada.<br /><br />“It is my family story,” she said. “When I first moved here, my experience was so different than what I had heard about, how my whole community was here, your aunties, sisters, all lived here within 10 square blocks.”Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com