Voices from the Barrens: Native People, Blueberries and Sovereignty from usa canada border crossing Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 34 min 7 sec
✓ Published: 10-Apr-2021

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“Voices from the Barrens, Native People, Blueberries and Sovereignty,” documents the wild blueberry harvest of the Wabanaki People from the USA and Canada. The film focuses on the Passamaquoddy tribe’s challenge to balance blueberry hand raking traditions with the economic realities of the world market, which favor mechanical harvesting. Each August, First People of the Canadian Wabanaki, the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet tribes, cross the US/Canada border into Maine to take part in the tradition