London Vallery | Dan Bon Lalinn Film Screening

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London Vallery | Dan Bon Lalinn Film Screening

The Black Staff Caucus Cultural Programming & Member Engagement subcommittee presents the screening of Dan Bon Lalinn by London Vallery. Dan B

on Lalinn is a film about London's journey with her father to the Kouri Vini community. 

After the screening, meet this dynamic afro-indigenous filmmaker and Harvard astrophysics student for a discussion about ancestral connection and reflections on the generational loss of indigenous knowledge.

London Vallery is an afro-indigenous filmmaker from central Louisiana, de-

scending from the Apalachee and Chitimacha tribes. Her work focuses on the ways that indigenous communities around the world utilize the stars and sky as a natural resource and the growing conflicts between the preservation of traditional knowledge and settler populations. Through the years, Vallery has worked with various communities across the Americas, Africa, and Asia to explore the concept of "two-eyed seeing", an American-Indigenous concept that highlights the value of both western and indigenous ways of knowing. Dan Bon Lalinn was the first film in Vallery's larger legal project, Upward Expansion, which argues in favor of increased sovereignty rights for US tribes over their traditional tribal airspace. (Apalachee = "App -ah- latch-ee". Chitimacha = "Cheetah-Mock-ah") 

This event is open to the public.