IMAGINING THE INDIAN: THE FIGHT AGAINST NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTING is an award-winning documentary that examines the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond. The film details the current uprising against the misappropriation of Native culture in a national reckoning about racial injustice that has succeeded in the removal of Confederate imagery, toppling statues of Christopher Columbus and forcing corporate sponsors of Washington’s NFL team to demand it change its most-offensive name. It examines the origin and proliferation of the words, images, and gestures that many Native people and their allies find offensive. Imagining the Indian explores the impact that stereotyping and marginalization of Native history have had on Native people. It chronicles the long social movement to eliminate mascoting.

Multiple Talk-back events will be held during opening week.

SCHEDULE WITH Q&A APPEARANCES AFTER THE SCREENINGS

Friday 4/7 @ 7:30PM:
Aviva Kempner, Director and Producer
Kevin Blackistone, Co-Producer and ESPN Panelist
Rhonda Levaldo (Acoma Pueblo), Interviewee and Founder of ‘Not in Our Honor’ and Faculty in Media Communications at Haskell Indian Nations University

Saturday 4/8 @ 1:30PM
moderated by Melissa Houghton, Executive Director of Women in Film & TV DC
Aviva Kempner, Director and Producer
Barbara Ballow, Editor
Rhonda Levaldo (Acoma Pueblo), Interviewee and Founder of ‘Not in Our Honor’ and Faculty in Media Communications at Haskell Indian Nations University

Saturday 4/8 @ 7:30PM
Aviva Kempner, DIrector and Producer
Kevin Blackistone, Co-Producer and ESPN Panelist
Josh Silver, Co-founder of ‘Rebrand Washington Football’
Rhonda Levaldo (Acoma Pueblo), Interviewee and Founder of ‘Not in Our Honor’ and Faculty in Media Communications at Haskell Indian Nations University
Jared Hautamaki (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)

Sunday 4/9 @ 1:30PM
Aviva Kempner, Director and Producer
Rhonda Levaldo (Acoma Pueblo), founder of ‘Not in Our Honor’ and Faculty in Media Communications at Haskell Indian Nations University
Kevin Gover (Pawnee), Under Secretary for Museums and Culture at the Smithsonian and interviewee
Yancey Burns, Co-Producer

Mon 4/10 @ 7:30PM
Aviva Kempner, Director and Producer
David Maraniss, author of “Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe”
Kevin Blackistone, Co-Producer and ESPN Panelist
Yancey Burns, Co-Producer